A Muscovite with a pepper spray blew off Swan Lake at the Mariinsky Theater, her daughter was taken to an orphanage
Details about the scandal at the Mariinsky Theater in St. hall the contents of a pepper spray. Earlier it was reported that due to the incident, several citizens needed medical assistance.
According to Fontanka, the brawler turned out to be a resident of Moscow, who arrived in St. Petersburg with her daughter for the weekend. The publication notes that the day before the incident in the theater, the lady celebrated her 45th birthday.
The publication says that the conflict arose due to the attempts of the woman and her daughter to film the ballet on phones. Uncultured behavior was not liked by the neighbors in the auditorium and the administrator, who made a remark. As a result, the verbal skirmish turned into the use of self-defense means — how justified, the security forces have yet to find out. It is reported that the soloists of the theater wrote a statement against the spectator because of the disrupted performance.
According to reports, the owner of the «Fighter» can was detained and taken to the police with a protocol of petty hooliganism, and her 16-year-old daughter was temporarily sent to a social shelter.