Maria Kovalchuk, 20, claimed the skin on her scalp was practically torn off during the attack by several men, who she said had “hinted” they wanted to have sex with her
A Ukrainian model left for dead following a “Porta Potty party” in Dubai has revealed her attackers said “you belong to us” during the near-death ordeal.
Maria Kovalchuk, 20, flew to Dubai earlier this year in a bid to advance her modelling career before she claimed to have met with the rich kids of Russian and Ukrainian businessmen in March. Just hours later, she would be found by the roadside with horrific injuries, including a broken spine and limbs after she was found to have “fallen from a height.”
After reports of the horrific injuries Maria sustained, there were fears she was kidnapped into “sexual slavery” and that she was taken to a notorious Porta Potty party. The parties are rumoured to involve wealthy men who reportedly pay large sums of money to abuse and degrade attractive young women, including those with social media profiles.
Speaking in Norway, where her mother lives, the model claimed she met a 19-year-old man who lives with his dad in Dubai at a karaoke event a the Five Jumeirah Village hoel. She told Russian outlet Ostorozhno, Novosti: “[He] offered for her to stay in his room and claimed that his father could fly her to Thailand on a private jet.”
Maria admitted she would go with the man and his friends, hoping it could lead to a free flight to Thailand. “They started teasing me, why I wasn’t drinking,” she told prominent Russian journalist Ksenia Sobchak at Ostorozhno.Media.
Shockingly, the group then uttered the four words stating Maria belonged to them: “Then some aggressive pushes like pushing in the shoulders began. After that, they started making fun of me like ‘you belong to us, we will do whatever we want.’
“I tried to take it as a joke, because it was really weird. They started behaving inappropriately, smashing bottles on the floor. That is, the entire floor was strewn with broken glass, that is, it was impossible to walk there.
“Then they started intimidating me, smashing glass. After that, they took my personal belongings, which included my passport. And one of the girls….put on my things and just left in them, although before that I asked her not to do this, [and] to leave my things. That is, no one heard me, and she just left the hotel in my dress.”
The men then “hinted” they wanted sex with her, with Maria adding: “I did not reciprocate, and this aggression was also heating them up.” Maria tried to flee but she was “dragged back into the room.”
The report added: “When they stepped out onto the balcony, she escaped and hid at a nearby construction site.” Then the men, who were “out of their minds” by this point, allegedly found her at the construction site and “beat her.”
“They practically tore the skin off her scalp, then threw her off a ledge onto the road,” said the account. “I ran away. Then, already on the street, when I was, I didn’t see them anymore, but I knew they were coming,” said Maria. “I ran to the nearest building, just scared, and ran in, hid there. It was just an unfinished building, open.”
Maria’s mother, Anna, said her daughter’s medical treatment was paid for by the Dubai authorities. She continued: “I don’t know how much they paid – the sum was colossal, millions.”
There now appears no charges will be brought against the men. The next day the case was closed, they were released. And the case was closed,” said Maria’s mother.
“The [Dubai] police investigation indicated that Maria said that she was running away from sexual violence and then went to protect her honour, her dignity, decided to commit suicide,” she said. The mother claimed the statement was “falsified”, adding that Maria wasn’t trying to take her own life and saying she was not intoxicated. Medical tests also showed she had no alcohol in her blood, said her mother.