A professor has been fired from his university position and is now facing serious sexual harassment charges after he was busted upskirting women at a fair.
Viral footage shared by a victim, who identified herself as Melissa, showed Miguel Pérez, 40, taking off his left sneaker and placing it under the skirt of a woman ordering food at the 2024 Puebla Fair in the central city Puebla. May 2.
Pérez was seen stepping aside and trying to place the sneaker between the unsuspecting woman's shoes to get a better view.
Melissa then approached the woman to warn her before Pérez headed for the exit while her boyfriend confronted him.
“Where are you going, Papi,” Melissa's partner asked Pérez. “You're recording with your sneakers!”
Miguel Pérez was arrested on May 2 at a fair in Puebla, Mexico, after he was caught putting his sneaker up a woman's skirt and recording it with a hidden camera. The 40-year-old is facing a serious charge of sexual harassment and has been dismissed from his role as professor at the Benemérita Autonomous University of Puebla.
Miguel Pérez placed a camera over the laces of his sneaker to capture women at a fair in Mexico
Miguel Perez was fired last Thursday as a professor by the Benerita Autonomous University of Puebla
Pérez walked on without answering and was pulled by the collar as he pushed his way through the crowd.
As he approached two police officers, Melissa's boyfriend managed to grab him by the collar of his shirt.
“The b**tard is filming women with a camera on the bottom,” he said.
Pérez tried to throw the officers off by taking a step forward with his right foot, but Melissa's friend pointed to the left sneaker and put his finger on the camera.
“It's there, look,” he said.
Pérez was handcuffed at the scene and escorted to a tent, where he was interrogated and then taken to a local police station.
He has been placed in pre-trial detention while the Puebla Public Prosecutor's Office continues its investigation.
One of the victims identified herself as Melissa and uploaded the video of university professor Miguel Pérez placing his sneaker under another woman's skirt with a hidden camera to record at a fair in Puebla, Mexico on May 2. Melissa released a video statement on Wednesday saying she felt obliged to make the video public on social media so that Pérez is prosecuted
The 40-year-old professor was placed in pre-trial detention while the Puebla Public Prosecutor's Office continues its investigation.
Mexican university professor Miguel Pérez was arrested at a fair in the central city of Puebla after he was seen using his sneaker with a hidden camera to record a woman 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 Pérez, so she decided to share the footage on her social media accounts, including X.
The district attorney's office reportedly tried to resolve the incident by suggesting he pay his victim $590, which she declined.
“Although it is a small crime, I don't think any woman would want to be seen, especially without her consent, like this man did,” she said.
Local news media revealed that Pérez shared sexual content of women through a group chat group on Telegram.
He was fired last Thursday by the Benemérita Autonomous University of Puebla (BUAP) in Mexico.
'Regarding the events that took place this day at the Puebla Fair, the BUAP emphasizes that it does not tolerate this type of inappropriate behavior that harms people's social life and privacy, such as what harms the member of the teaching staff of the institution will tolerate. ', the university said in a statement.