Thank you DaDa from Poprad, Slovakia … please watch the video inside …
Violence can smack any of us in the face any time … we live in an increasingly violent society, tragically.
And today weapons are seen as the method-of-choice for the humiliation, insult and scarring of fellow human beings. A straight-forward street-corner brawl involving fisticuffs is not enough today.
In Spain, in the differing worlds of Marbella and Torrevieja, knife crime and burglaries are the things to be feared. In the UK more than 1.77 million violent offences were recorded, according to police crime statistics.
In Slovakia, a country with a population of about five million, around 15,000 cases of violence are recorded each year.
A friend of ours, Daniela DaDa Gregorová, who lives in the Slovak mountain city of Poprad, became a victim of a potentially dangerous incident recently.
She said: “November 25 was the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
“I never thought violence could happen to me. I was mostly convinced that it can only happen to pretty women or to those who are challengingly dressed. Then it happened to me.
“A guy stopped me when I was going to the station in the early morning hours and spoke to me, Then went away.
“But next I realised he had run up behind me. I was instinctively scared that he wanted to rob me. Well, what followed then struck me.
“I don’t know how strong a person is, when it comes to personalities, he completely parallelized me with fear because I can never know what’s going on in his head.
“That is why it is necessary not to be silent about things like this, but to talk about it even if it may be uncomfortable. Because you never know when it could happen to your loved ones.”
To mark the international day DaDa – as she is known – joined other creative and brave souls to stand out in the crowd and be counted.
Here at The Society we are proud to know and support Daniela DaDa Gregorová and her attitude to life and humanity.
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