In the video, the Riyadh thief attacked a woman with her daughter and threw her to the ground

Many Saudis have been busy on social media in recent hours with a video showing a thief attacking a woman for stealing her.

The hashtag #Thief_Riyadh spread to Twitter, where many users tweeted expressing outrage at the scene, which showed a thief attacking a woman as soon as she left one of the premises, while a little girl followed her.

Despite the child’s presence, the assailant ran into the woman who was trying to steal her bag, while she resisted him to prevent him from taking what she had, so she had no more than to throw it on the ground.

Stop the aggressor

Hours later, Riyadh police media spokesperson Major Khaled Al-Kreidis announced the perpetrators had been arrested. In a statement, he said that after security authorities received a district police report from a Pakistani resident, that she was assaulted and robbed, and after being posted on social media for the incident, the security authorities were able to identify the author, a citizen of the third decade of life, as well as another citizen and resident of Chadian nationality arrested during his third decade of life.

Additionally, he explained that the initial inference procedures indicated their involvement in monitoring the woman as she left the house. He confirmed that they had been arrested and that all preliminary legal measures had been taken against them, and they had been referred to the prosecution.