Students say the camera was in the bathroom of a civic-military school in Paraná for years, and management said it was a smoke sensor

After students discovered a camera installed in the women's bathroom at Colégio Cívico-Militar Érico Veríssimo, in Cambé, in the North of Paraná, a police report was registered. In the document, they say that they noticed the device at the location approximately three years ago. However, the management had said, at the time, that it was a smoke sensor to prevent students from smoking in the environment.

Because it constantly emits a red light, the students suspected that it could be another type of equipment. On Monday (19), a student decided to look closely and, behind the plastic, there was a device recording images.

Another student photographed the school's monitoring system and recorded what the videos captured were like, showing the cabins and mirrors in the rooms — including the men's bathroom.

Cameras installed in other spaces do not have the same format and are exposed.

Student Alessa Gabriele told RPC, a TV Globo affiliate, that those responsible for the students did not sign any terms authorizing the images in the bathrooms.

"I felt invaded, because it was my body they were seeing. I myself have changed my clothes several times in the bathroom. For us, it's scary because they were men who saw the cameras, they were in the military room," said Alessa.

The school confirmed having installed monitoring devices and denied capturing images from inside the cabins. According to the institution, the cameras "were directed at the entrance doors of the men's and women's bathrooms, without capturing the spaces intended for the physiological needs of the students." The college also stated that the student who recorded the monitoring panel accessed the surveillance room without authorization.

The State Department of Education of the State of Paraná (Seed-PR) reported that the equipment was removed and there are no images stored on them. An on-site inspection will take place this Wednesday (21). The Civil Police (PC-PR) reported that it opened a police investigation and is taking steps to investigate the facts.