Scare tactics

Last night the daughter of a member of the team was stalked on her way home.

She reported the incident as she came home and it could have been a case of harassment. So waited for today and after she returned from school and did a reconstruction with her. Her path in yellow, in red, his:

From what was shown by the girl, as can be seen in this picture (which is, superimposed on a map, what was shown to the police), the man clearly wanted to convey the message that she was being followed. She went significantly out of her path and was always intercepted. There was no contact made outside eye contact.

Immediately it was decided to head to the nearest police station and report this. Our translation on what was put in the police report:

“Were present in this police department (…), accompanied by his/her daughter, minor, (…), both identified and associated as Participants, communicating a situation and behaviour on the part of an unknown individual that caused them suspicion.

According to (….), yesterday, around (…) when she left the (…), she crossed with an individual, unknown, who was on his mobile. She continued on her way to her residence, having passed by (…), arriving at (…). However, during the journey, she noticed that the person standing at (…) was, apparently, to following her. Because she felt followed, instead of taking the normal route and going home, she made her way through places where there were more people and with more light. She noticed that in certain moments of the journey, the individual approached and took a route in order to face her, nevertheless never spoke to her or had any compromising act.

The individual at stake would be (…); He wore (…).

The Participants, considering that this was a suspicious and strange behaviour on the part of the individual, decided to participate in the situation for preventive reasons.”

There were some other indications that the encounter with the man wasn’t just a random encounter with a stalker. The facts of that we will keep to ourselves.

There are 2 possibilities. This is either related to the case or it isn’t.

If it isn’t, then we are making a storm in a glass of water.

If it is, then it was meant to scare us. By scaring the family member of team member. A girl.

We had 2 options. Close the blog or not. Safety of our family members comes first.

We have decided to keep the blog open. Visibility is our safety. We cannot stop someone wanting to do something silly against any of us or our families. However, if we remain visible and continue our work as we have done, we feel the deterrence is greater.

That is the reason why we’re doing this post.

To those thinking that we will put anonymity before our families, even your warped, disgusting minds will tell you that the anonymity is irrelevant, we don’t need to do that.

Textusa is an anonymous woman because we want to make this exercise of citizenship nameless, to convey the idea that the anonymous citizen can make a difference whatever the humongous forces against.

That only means we want to keep anonymity. We don’t have to.

If we are correct in our suspicion this was a deliberate scare tactic to those now collaborating with those responsible for this, do take a look in the mirror. This is how low you have sunk.

The Officer who took the report recommended that we take this up with the PJ and that is what we have done/will do. The details of this we won't make public.

We think we don’t need to say how seriously we are taking this. Our actions speak louder than our words.



Post Scriptum:

To show clearly from where the photo the Frog has tweeted was taken from.