Filming from Carrefour Brașov with the moments when the young woman packs the products, is arrested, beats an agent and is brutalized and beaten | Freedom

What the two parties say.

The girl’s version

A young woman complains that on Tuesday, December 1, 2020, “she made some purchases at the Carrefour hypermarket in the new AFI shopping center, where she paid for the products with her personal card, but forgot to keep the receipt,” according to the Association’s statements ” Women Involved “. represented the girl after the incident.

The association assures that it verified as much as possible the version of the girl, who showed them the statement of account, said Elena Belloiu, head of the NGO “Women involved” of Libertatea.

After shopping at the first Carrefour, the girl went to another store, also Carrefour, the one in the south, in Dârste, to look for products that she had not found in the first store. There are 3 kilometers between the two hypermarkets.

She was beaten with feet and hands by “Carrefour security chief,” says the organization that represents her.

The incident caught the public’s attention when the girl claimed, through those who speak on her behalf, that the violence is due to the fact that she is a gypsy. Liberty documented these allegations and discussed them with the parties.

Store and police version

The store claims the girl stole. But he kicked out the store security man who hit the young woman. And on Wednesday, December 23, Carrefour announced that it also changed store manager.

The Police said they opened a case of theft, where it is understood that the 18-year-old is being investigated, and “abusive behavior”, where it is understood that the Carrefour employee is being investigated.

Brașov police also said in the statement that “there are indications” that the girl stole, on the same day, from another store.

What can be seen in the images?

Freedom took possession of the images. There are images taken as of 15:40 on December 1 by surveillance cameras:

1. From the store, in front of the shelves.
2. From the room she was taken to.

Put the products in the backpack in the basket.

The images are not continuous. The first video shows how the girl, wearing a Covid protective mask and dressed in a short light-colored coat, is in the store, standing in front of the shelf. The medium-sized wheeled basket is on your left. In the basket is his backpack.

At one point, she sits, like a shopper looking for products in a place at the bottom of the shelf. He chooses several things and in one of them, a rectangular packaged product, he puts it with his left hand in his backpack, which in turn is in the basket.

Later, a short sequence at 4:09 p.m. shows the young woman passing by the houses at the exit of the store, without a basket, with her backpack on her shoulder.

The girl shakes her hand and the young man grabs her by the neck.

The other images, without sound, which begin at approximately 4:11 p.m., are of the room where the girl was taken, and the recordings show how the violent event occurred.

At first, the girl takes off her coat, keeps a colorful sweater. There is no physical contact between those in the room until 4:26 PM. From here we play the sequences.

The record also shows the girl and two men: one of the guards who detained her, an old man, dressed in blue, and a younger man, in jeans, who entered the room later, at 4:24 p.m.

The man in blue is the employee of a security company that has a contract with Carrefour, the second is Carrefour’s security man.

There are several products on the table, which the girl had taken from her backpack.

At one point, the young woman is asked about a product, which appears to be an article of clothing. The young woman takes it in her hand and then begins to look at the phone. The young man approaches her and puts his hand on the product.

The girl shakes the man’s hand and stands up. He grabbed her by the shoulders and pushed her back on the bench to sit.

She kicks, he kicks and his hand

The young woman is sitting on the bench again and the store clerk is still pushing her. She gets up again and the agent pushes her again.

The second security guard in the room also approaches the two, it seems like he’s trying to stop the violence.

From the bench, the young woman kicks the foot of the first man, the one who pushed her, and he, obviously angry, responds almost instantly, with his boot. He kicks her first with his foot, and then with his hand on the girl’s left cheek, a slap or a fist, the images are not clear.

The young man then walks away from the girl, puts his hand in his pants, as if wiping himself, while the security guard walks up to the girl and continues talking to her. The violent sequence ends at 4:26 PM. Then the police show up and there are no other physical contacts, but the images are not continuous. The girl leaves the room at 5:41 pm

According to Carrefour, “the security guard involved in the incident (not the young man in the photos, the one who hits the girl) He is no longer part of the store’s staff and the head of security is currently the subject of an internal investigation ”.