Overview
- A witness alerted police on Monday to several suspected mounts for hidden cameras in women's toilets at the HWR Lichtenberg campus and officers found mounts but no active cameras.
- Authorities opened an investigation for intrusion into the highly personal sphere and recovered the items for criminal-technical examination to check for memory cards or any transmission capability.
- Earlier this year police already found hidden cameras on the same campus and in June investigators discovered Velcro mounting devices in women's toilets at the Bezirksamt Lichtenberg.
- Investigators last week searched the Treptow apartment of a 66-year-old who is suspected in the earlier camera findings, but any connection between him and the newly found mounts remains under inquiry.
- The university has pledged stricter, documented checks of all toilets and sanitary areas, and the case highlights that under German law such acts are treated as a serious privacy offence called Eingriff in den höchstpersönlichen Lebensbereich.