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The concept of persecution It is widely used in our language and we use it when we want to indicate that someone is following another or others not in a normal way but rather persistently and continues, in some cases very extreme even harassing them and generating a specific annoyance for that insistence to follow in their footsteps to each place that go.

Jealous, very possessive people usually develop this type of action when they are presented with any doubt about the fidelity of their partner or someone in particular.

Also, the aforementioned action is deployed by the press, more precisely by the paparazzi or by those reporters who have to cover shocking news, because in this development of their profession and to get the scoop, the photo of the protagonists red-handed, they must literally follow them everywhere they go, even stand guard at the door of their house until they leave.

Famous people often complain about this situation repeatedly because they consider that this

tracing many times he transgresses the barrier of her privacy.
It is worth remembering a sadly famous episode linked to a paparazzi persecution in which the Princess Lady Di.
The ex-wife of the heir to the British Crown was in his car together with his boyfriend, the tycoon Dodi Al Fayed, and began to be chased by reporters who wanted to get a snapshot of the couple.
With the intention of escaping from this stalking, the driver made a sudden maneuver that ended in an accident and with the death of the famous couple.

On the other hand, the concept of persecution is used in the scope of politics when someone wants to express that he feels harassed and mistreatment by the governing authorities or by another source of power as a consequence of not think just as they do.
Historically, those who have demonstrated in different ways in front of the current power have been persecuted.

Many times this persecution consists of a close surveillance of everything they do, say and with whom they meet, also hindering their public demonstrations.
But in more extreme cases that persecution may consist of violence physical.

And finally, the concept is widely used also to account for the follow-up that the policeman or one authority from safety carried out against those who have just committed an offense, with the mission of stopping them. On foot, by car or motorcycle, criminals are often pursued.

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