On Monday evening, returning home to Fabijoniškės, Aistė was looking for a place to park her car for a while. Suddenly, an unknown man approached her car – he kept appearing either in front of the front or the rear car window.
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Aistė waited in the car until the man left, but when she got out of the car, it turned out that the man was stalking her – after walking a bit, he started following her. The frightened woman began shouting across the entire yard.
“It was evening, so there was no one in the parking lot. Aistė saw some car and started running towards it – the man was running after her. Fortunately, she managed to get into the stairwell, correctly enter the door code, and slam the door right in front of his eyes, as he was just a step away from her. He also tried to grab her by the hand – it’s unclear how it could have ended. She got into the elevator because the man appeared in the stairwell. It turns out he lives there,” Saugirdas Vaitulionis told his followers.
The police took action only after the story was made public
The situation was further described by A. Sarokienė herself, sharing the posts also with Žmonės.lt readers.
“I was followed and attacked near Vėtrungių St. 95,” Aistė wrote in a post on the Fabijoniškės community page on the social network Facebook.
She did not hide that she reported the incident to the police by filing a statement. However, the police’s actions shocked her.
“I was left unharmed, not raped, not injured, not robbed. The decision was made – it turns out this is not a criminal act. So anyone can follow, scare, chase, threaten.
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My everyday life has become fear for my and my children’s safety because the attacker lives in my stairwell. I no longer trust law enforcement, but I believe in publicity,” she wrote, sharing a message from the police that the investigation will not be initiated.
“The police hadn’t even come to him (I know because I later supplemented the statement with which apartment he lives in). There have been more than one attacks on women, women with children, but they didn’t even come to him because this is not a criminal act.
We all have to be afraid to leave our homes because I don’t know when I will meet him in the elevator. How am I supposed to behave in the elevator, meeting him with children? My only wish is to find tenants (hoping he rents the apartment) so that they simply throw him out of that apartment. I promise to find others, much better tenants, and pay extra,” Aistė said.
However, it later turned out that the police reacted to the incident only after it was made public.
“Aistė wrote that the police appeared and will start an investigation after all. I keep thinking: why do you have to cause a scandal for things to happen? Why can’t you just do your job properly from the start? Only when a scandal arises do we do something,” S. Vaitulionis asked.
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