In 2016, Vyacheslav Datsik was detained for breaking into a brothel, attacking the sex workers present, and forcing them to walk naked through the streets of St Petersburg. Two years removed from the incident, which made headlines across the Russian Federation and beyond, a Russian court has sentenced Datsik to three-and-a-half years in a strict penal colony.
Dastsik’s arrest took place shortly after he declared a “war on prostitutes” in May 2016. He broke into a small hotel that also functioned as a brothel and began to record the scene with his camera. Flanked by accomplices, Datsik intimidated 12 sex workers and an alleged client and forced them to follow him to the police station in their “work uniforms.