A woman attacks the forks of launderers with bleach in a viral video

In an act of protest against sprawl underground, a woman posted a video of herself pouring water and bleach onto the forks of the delinquents.

Anna Dovgalyuk, a 20-year-old law student in St. Petersburg, Russia, posted a video showing her revenge on men sitting with their legs apart on public transport. In the clip uploaded to YouTube, Dovgalyuk claimed to have targeted more than 70 people with his own justice.

"What we needed for the demonstration was 30 liters of water, mixed with six liters of bleach," said the clip, which Dovgalyuk called his video manifesto. "This solution … changes the color of clothes in minutes, leaving a non-washable stain."

The woman, who also describes herself as an activist and a former queen of pageant on Instagram, described the broadcast as "a disgusting phenomenon, which is fought in many countries and continues to extinguish itself. in Russia".

"For me, it is extremely important to draw people's attention to this issue, by provoking discussion, because the lack of public respect for women is shameful for a society," wrote Dovgalyuk on social media. She credited "friends, fully sharing my position" for helping her film the clip.

The video has almost a million views in one day of its download, but it did not work well, with just under 2,000 people clicking the button, while 36,000 people said they did not be. The discussion in Dovgalyuk's comments and social media contains multiple calls from outraged men who question his definition of "deployment" as "sexist aggression," arguing that the goals of his protest

Couple sitting, with a man spreading his legs and a woman crossing her legs. Cover illustration. A woman launched a viral video campaign against the act of broadcast on the St. Petersburg metro. Getty Images

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A police representative from the St. Petersburg and Leningrad region said the agents had established Dovgalyuk's identity and "an audit is underway," confirmed the RIA Novosti news agency. It is unclear whether a person soaked by the activist has already made an official complaint to the authorities.

This is not the first viral event on the Dovgalyuk television channel, as it had already staged a similar demonstration on the St. Petersburg metro against rock climbing. The clip featured a young woman who was showing her underwear in several metro stations in the city, gathering almost four million views since it went online last October. The reaction to this video was lukewarm because it drew about 16,000 people to 10,000 "I like" at the time of publication.