# In Brest, teenagers wouldn't let a woman off bus No. 12A and threatened her

- URL: https://syn.by/en/society/teenagers-threatened-woman-bus-12a/
- Published: 2026-11-11T12:00:48+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-11T12:00:48+00:00
- Section: Society
- Language: en
- RU edition: https://syn.by/ru/obshchestvo/podrostki-ugrozhali-zhenshchine-avtobuse-12a.md
- BE edition: https://syn.by/hramadztva/bierasci-padlietki-nie-vypuskali-zhanchynu-autobusa.md

> According to the victim's daughter, the police did not come when called from the bus, and later asked where the woman had been all that time.

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In Brest, people are discussing a conflict on bus No. 12A: a group of teenagers surrounded a female passenger, insulted her and threatened not to let her off the bus. The incident took place in the evening of 8 November 2026, according to the woman's daughter.

According to her, at about 21:20 her mother was on her way home when several young men, around 17 years old, [began harassing a girl](https://vbrest.by/news/196918) who was riding the bus. The woman stood up for the girl, and the teenagers turned on her. The author of the post claims they insulted the woman, surrounded her, tried to knock the phone out of her hands and threatened that she would not get off the bus. They also would not let her through to the driver or to the exit, and she had to ride past her stop.

The daughter of the Brest resident described what happened on Threads. According to her, the teenagers "Called her names, swore, surrounded her, knocked the phone out of her hands. They cursed at her, called her an old woman and threatened that she would not get off the bus. In the end Mum rode past her stop, because they simply would not let her either get off or get through to the driver."

The teenagers could not be identified. The author wrote: "Yesterday, unfortunately, nobody stepped in. And there are no details about the kids, it wasn't possible to take a photo. One was tall, round-faced, the cheekiest of them. He also kept shouting 'Do you know who my father is?', I would of course like to know who his father is."

The mother tried to call the police from the bus itself but got no help. The daughter said: "They didn't refuse, it's just that nobody came. When Mum got home, she called back, and they said, so where were you all this time. And she had walked 40 minutes home across the whole district once she was able to get off the bus."

None of the other passengers got involved in the conflict. The author of the post was outraged by the passengers' behaviour, "especially the men, who watched what was happening and did not react at all." Many commenters also wondered why nobody helped.

Some commenters said they had themselves encountered aggressive behaviour by teenagers on public transport in Brest. Others advised contacting the police and checking CCTV recordings. There were also suggestions that identifying those involved would not be difficult thanks to the city's cameras.

The author of the post added that during visits to her home district she had repeatedly seen teenagers breaking street furniture and other public amenities. Brest has a population of about 347138.