Woman shoots maid falling from the window and does not help

Victim survived the fall, while the employer was detained by the Kuwaiti police

One woman has caused an uproar on social networks by filming – and posting – a video of her Ethiopian maid falling from the seventh floor instead of helping her. The case happened in Kuwait and went public on Friday. The victim survived the fall, while the employer was detained by the country’s police.

The  12-second video shows the Ethiopian dangling from the window with one hand, shouting for help (“hold me, hold me!”), While the author of the video says “crazy, come back inside.” The video shows the Ethiopian falling into a cover, which seems to have amortized her fall – she broke her arm and had other bruises.

According to the author of the video, this was the way she found herself defending herself against a murder charge.

The NGO Kuwait Society for Human Rights stated that the employer had a duty to try to rescue the employee. According to the agency, the country’s criminal code states that failing to help a person in danger can cause up to three months in prison.

The subject turned trending topics on the country’s Twitter . Users were divided between those who supported the author of the video for not having risked her own life and those who accused her of not even crying after the Ethiopian’s fall.