After a video clip that has spread widely on the social networking site Twitter during the past hours, showing a girl assaulting and kicking her colleague forcefully, has sparked widespread anger in Saudi Arabia, the Riyadh police intervened.
The Police General Command announced that it had identified the assailant, and the media spokesman explained that the competent authorities had taken legal measures once morest the girl who appeared in the video clip.
Calls to punish the aggressor
This came following the video spread, accompanied by the hashtag #girl_violating_her friend, “and in a few seconds, a girl suddenly attacked her colleague, by beating and punching, while others sat in a place similar to the stands encouraging her, while their laughter erupted.
While the assaulted girl contented herself with trying to protect her face from the punches, then she left the place quietly and silently.
deterrent penalties
However, calls to hold the bully student accountable later poured in, demanding that she be treated psychologically, and that we also return to the real reasons behind what happened to her.
Others also demanded the support of the assaulted girl, stressing that she was not weak, but rather surprised by what happened.
In addition, activists on social media demanded that the phenomenon of bullying and violence among students and youth be addressed, and that anyone who commits it be monitored with deterrent penalties, stressing that it is an integrated crime that requires accountability, as they put it.