A professor has been fired from his university position and now faces a charge of aggravated sexual harassment after he was caught making skirts for women at a fair.
Viral images shared by a victim, who identified herself as Melissa, showed Miguel Pérez, 40, sliding his left sneaker and placing it under the skirt of a woman who was placing an order for food at the 2024 Puebla Fair in the central city of Puebla. May 2.
Perez could be seen stepping aside and attempting to place the sneaker between the unsuspecting woman’s shoes to get a better look.
Melissa later approached the woman to alert her before Perez headed straight for the exit while her boyfriend confronted him.
‘Where are you going daddy,’ Melissa’s partner asked Pérez. ‘You’re filming with your sneakers!’
Miguel Pérez was arrested on May 2 at a fair in Puebla, Mexico, after he was caught placing his sneaker up a woman’s skirt and recording it with a hidden camera. The 40-year-old man faces a charge of aggravated sexual harassment and was fired from his teaching position at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla.
Miguel Pérez placed a camera lightly on the laces of his shoe to record women at a fair in Mexico
Miguel Pérez was fired as a professor at the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla last Thursday
Perez continued walking without responding and was pulled by the collar as he made his way through the crowd.
As he approached two police officers, Melissa’s boyfriend managed to grab him by the collar of his shirt.
“That bastard is filming women with a camera on the bottom,” he said.
Pérez tried to mislead the police by taking a step forward with his right foot, but Melissa’s boyfriend pointed to her left shoe and placed his finger on the camera.
“It’s there, look,” he said.
Perez was handcuffed at the scene and escorted to a tent, where he was questioned and then taken to a local police station.
He is in preventive detention while the Attorney General’s Office of the State of Puebla continues its investigation.
One of the victims identified herself as Melissa and uploaded the video of university professor Miguel Pérez placing his sneaker with a hidden camera under another woman’s skirt to record at a fair in Puebla, Mexico, on May 2. Melissa released a video statement on Wednesday indicating that she felt obligated to release the video on social media in order for Perez to be prosecuted.
The 40-year-old professor was remanded in preventive detention while the Attorney General’s Office of the State of Puebla continues its investigation
Mexican university professor Miguel Pérez was arrested at a fair in the central city of Puebla after he was detected using his sneaker with a hidden camera to record a woman who was placing an order at a kiosk.
In a video statement released Wednesday, a visibly shaken Melissa said she was under the impression authorities would not prosecute Perez, so she decided to share the footage on her social media accounts, including X.
The district attorney’s office reportedly attempted to resolve the incident by suggesting he pay his victim $590, which she refused.
“Even though it’s a misdemeanor, I think no woman would want to be seen, especially without her consent, like this guy did,” she said.
Local media revealed that Pérez shared sexual content from women through a Telegram chat group.
He was fired from the Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (BUAP) in Mexico last Thursday.
‘In relation to the events that occurred this day at the Puebla Fair, the BUAP emphasizes that it will not tolerate this type of inappropriate behavior that harms the social life and privacy of people, such as what the member of the institution’s teaching staff did . ,’ the university said in a statement.
