Russian woman to serve one year in jail for assaulting cops in Dubai

Ehab Atta, Staff Reporter

The Criminal Court in Dubai on Sunday sentenced a Russian visitor to one year in jail to be followed by deportation over assaulting four cops at a police station.

It was an uncommon and strange incident, when anger gripped a Russian visitor while she was being detained at a police station, which drove her to assault four police officers there including two men and women.

The victims confirmed to the Dubai Public Prosecution that the defendant was in the upper floor of the detention unit at Al Barsha Police Station before the incident. One of the victims (22-year-old policewoman) was left shocked when the accused came to the ground floor, which is not allowed by law. When the cop asked her to go back to the detention room on the top floor, the defendant refused and insulted the victim and kicked her in the stomach.  This took place in the presence of the second victim, who tried to save her colleague from the defendant’s attack. The latter held the victims by their hair until one of their male colleagues rushed to save them, but the defendant beat him up as well and also another male colleague.