A boy sits by the monument 'Sympathy', in memory of Malchik, a stray dog who was brutally stabbed to death by a young model more than four years ago.
The monument to the dog brutally killed by the fashion model, was erected in Mendeleevskaya Metro Station in Moscow.
The dog called "Malchik" ("Boy") was an ordinary street dog, of an estimated 100,000 stray dogs in Moscow. Malchik was a black mongrel dog, the size of a police dog. Vendors of the stalls and other "residents" of the Metro underpass, who often rode the subway to work, would stop to fed the friendly dog which lived in the underpass for about 3 years.
Unfortunately, one day he encountered a fashion model named Yuliana Romanova who was walking with her terrier. She tried to get her dog to attack Malchik, who was sleeping peacefully in the subway station. And when Malchik managed to cause the terrier to back down, Yuliana drew out a knife from her purse and stabbed Malchik herself. She managed to stab Malchik approximately 6 times in his chest, back, and groin area before the "residents" realized their boy was being attacked & came to his rescue.
Only moments after the rescue, Malchik passed away. Without fighting back against his attacker, the dog or the human being stabbing him, he quietly died. Soon the police and the ambulance brigade arrived. The doctors refused to take the girl to the hospital as they did "think/believe" that this brutal random act of her killing the dog was "very serious". The police were not too concern with investigating the case, while the fashion model tried to go abroad - *aka* FLEE THE COUNTRY. The Izvestia newspaper called the girl, and she did not seem to be very sorry about the dog's death:
"All this does not matter now", the model told the reporter.
"I can only say that I regret. But in a week I am going to Spain for a job. I hope to forget all this. At least you will not bother me any more"…
However, all her dreams did not come true. The attack outraged the people of Moscow and group of activists appealed to the police and the authorities. Legal hearing in the court was conducted, and the court recognized the girl irresponsible. The court verdict required the girl to be placed in the psychiatric clinic, and she is in the clinic now.
A group of influential people in Moscow wrote to the head of the Moscow Metro suggesting that a monument be erected in memory of the unfortunate dog. Residents of Moscow raised $15,000 for the statue of Malchik that was erected in a subway station, his favorite place in Moscow.
"The question of respect to the world of animals that live next to us is like the first stage of morality, which one cannot skip in order to proceed to all further stages…"