Comment on Quebec police don't want residents to post videos of people stealing packages because the porch pirates might be innocent

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Kyrgizion@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

No idea if it’s similar to our situation, but here in Flanders it’s illegal to post images of people in the act of committing a crime, since they get the same identity protections as anyone else (innocent until officially convicted etc). So that means we’ve had several situations where store owners who were robbed still posted the images, hoping to recoup some losses or find the perpetrators, only to have to pay fines on top of their losses because they “broke the law” by outing thieves.

Don’t even think about trying to defend yourself or your possessions, though; any force used MUST be in proportion to the threat. That means you HAVE to let people who’ve robbed you, and are no longer actively threatening you, go. Several people (mostly jewellers) are in prison because they unloaded a hunting rifle into the backs of fleeing thieves.

Personally, I think there should be some kind of golden middle road between the EU/Canada and USA situations…

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