‘Make it hurt’: Police raid underground BDSM club in Russia

MOSCOW

Security forces have raided an illegal BDSM club in Russia, according to local media reports that included a video in which a police officer was heard saying "you can make it hurt."

The video, purportedly shot by the police officers themselves, emerged on social media on Nov. 21. Footage shows barely naked women – and fully clothed men – lying on the floor, while operatives search through the area.

“It’s a BDSM club, you can make it hurt,” one of the operatives can be heard saying jokingly, as his colleague tries not to step on the people lying on the ground.

The man filming the video then asks one of the busted men, whom he refers to as a “chef,” where the owner of the venue was. Yet, as it happens during police raids, the owner was nowhere to be found.

It remains unclear where exactly the now-bust club was located, with some users speculating it was in the southern Russian city of Rostov. Bread News Telegram channel, however, reported that the club was actually in the Siberian city of Khabarovsk.