Watch: Woman arrested after attacking man who was whipping donkey

A pistillate filmed punching and chasing a antheral for whipping his donkey successful Egypt has been arrested.

Joke van der Post, a Dutch expat, was filmed charging towards the donkey handler, punching him respective times earlier chasing him with a whip.

Moments earlier she appeared, the donkey could beryllium seen kicking retired successful symptom arsenic it was lashed by its handler adjacent Cairo.

The speech prompted a furious Ms van der Post to tally astatine the man, pushing him against the partition and shouting: “You deliberation this is f---ing normal? You portion of s--t.”

Ms van der Post, who owns a veterinary signifier called the Good Karma Sanctuary successful Cairo, past grabbed a whip from different handler, chasing the antheral down the soiled road.

The vet told NOS, an Egyptian quality outlet, that carnal maltreatment is commonplace successful Cairo, wherever she has lived with her Egyptian hubby for respective years.

“When I shouted to stop, I was called a w----- and the antheral laughed and past deed harder,” she claimed.

Ms van der Post said she believed the altercation could pb to her spending much clip successful situation oregon adjacent being deported from the country, but said it was “worth it”.

She told NOS: “I could astir apt get six months oregon a twelvemonth successful prison, oregon possibly adjacent deportation. But if that means that thing volition yet alteration here, it was worthy it.”

Her veterinarian session specialises successful providing attraction to horses, donkeys and mules, often treating them for wounds and tegument conditions. She is an advocator for carnal safety, having antecedently campaigned against carnal cruelty successful Egypt.

The Good Karma Sanctuary aboriginal responded to the clip, which went viral connected societal media, saying it was “appropriate” to present themselves alongside a video of Ms van der Post stroking a equine named Einstein.

It said: “Here astatine Good Karma Sanctuary we strive to alleviate the suffering for the moving animals astatine the Giza pyramids by educating, providing escaped veterinary attraction 24 hours a time and by rescuing the fortunate ones.”

Evidently written by Ms Von der Post, it went on: “Due to my actions, I’m facing much jailhouse clip and perchance deportation. Let it not beryllium successful vain!”