At the end of August 2025, a video of a teenage girl holding objects that looked like a knife and an ax went viral. It is alleged that with the help of such a weapon she tried to protect herself and her sister from a foreigner who was pestering them, but the police detained the girl herself, and the aggressor remained free. We have verified the accuracy of this story.
A video of a girl threatening a man with a knife and an ax began circulating on August 25. Internet users claim that this is how a 14-year-old resident of Scotland tried to protect herself and her younger sister, shouting at the same time: “Don’t touch my sister, she’s only 12!” “In Scotland, a young warrior girl fought back against migrants. The girl was of course arrested. And those who pestered her were released,” the Telegram channel reported.Sanya in Florida"(495,000 views at the time of writing this analysis).
The incident was reported in a similar way SVTV News And "Ren TV", as well as Telegram channels "Evil proof" (211,000) and "Notepad Russia 18+"(129,000). Others limited themselves to comments that Scottish teenagers, for their own safety, do not leave home without knives and axes. Such posts appeared, in particular, in the channels “Russian bun and green stick"(132,000), "Vobla • news"(117,000), "Heavenly"(101,000), etc.
The fullest version of the video lasts 43 seconds and shows two girls: one holding a gun behind her back, the other trying to hold her back. The man filming them, in turn, asks the first girl to show him the knife and ax with which she allegedly threatens him. At the same time, contrary to statements in viral posts, the phrase “Don’t touch my sister, she’s only 12 years old” is said by an unarmed girl. At the 13th second of the video, the silhouette of another woman is visible.
27 August Police Scotland released statement about this incident. According to law enforcement, on August 23, the girls approached a couple from Bulgaria on the street in Dundee. The police identified all participants in the conflict; A 12-year-old local resident was charged with illegal possession of bladed weapons. The teenagers' personal information will not be disclosed because they are minors.
Police officers not found no evidence that the girls were sexually harassed or threatened with sexual harassment by the man filming them. The day after the press release appeared, the Daily Mail published interview with this person. He said that he had been living legally in the UK for four years, and that he encountered an armed girl when he was going to the store with his wife (she was probably the third girl in the video). The Daily Mail also cited police sources who confirmed the man's words.
The girl's behavior is likely to be caused by, among other things, a string of reports of sex crimes in Scotland. Since the beginning of September, the local police have published several press releases on this topic on their website: law enforcement agencies were looking for witnesses to the rape of a 16-year-old girl in Glasgow spoke of presented charged in a similar case in Kirkcaldy, reported convictions in similar cases crimes regarding minors young men and adults women.
The heroine of the viral video was charged because in Scotland carrying weapons in public places without special permission counts a crime, and criminal liability comes from 12 years old. At the same time, juvenile cases is considering special commission, which determines not only punishment, but the measures of protection and support necessary for the child - this is May be temporary supervision, mandatory participation in social events, residence in a certain place, etc. The decisions of the commission, as a rule, are much lenient than judicial ones.
September 4th became knownthat police have also charged a man and a woman in the case. Their names, as well as the nature of the charges, were not disclosed in the press release.
The video began to actively spread on social networks on August 25, mostly published by English-speaking accounts in X. It was there that information appeared that the girls were defending themselves from illegal migrants who attacked them. The video became viral after the owner of X, billionaire Elon Musk, drew attention to the recording: he reposted straightaway some similar publications, which in total received more than 60 million views. Also several posts on the topic posted British right-wing activist Tommy Robinson. After this, Internet users nicknamed the girl was “the young queen of Scotland” and they even began to paint fan art. On an American crowdfunding platform GiveSendGo, related with far-right groups, in favor of the heroines of the video collected £94,000 (though the text on the platform states that there were three girls injured).
After Musk and Robinson's posts, Scottish police released statement, in which she asked not to spread misinformation about the incident. To this call joined Scottish First Minister John Swinney, who accused the owner of X of deliberately undermining the “social cohesion of Scottish society.”
Thus, the heroine of the viral video was indeed detained for illegally carrying knives, but the information that she was defending herself or her sister from the harassment of migrants is not confirmed. This interpretation of events was spread by far-right activists in X, while the police refute it.
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