“At the moment it is known, that yesterday, July 23, Oksana’s body was found in her apartment in Paris.”

Shachko was a founding member of Femen, a feminist activist group known for their controversial, and often topless, political protests across Europe — including interrupting Woody Allen’s jazz-band performance in Germany last year. One of the co-founders of Femen, a Ukrainian feminist and political activist group known for its topless demonstrations, reportedly committed suicide in her Paris apartment on Monday, media reports said. Another Femen founder, Anna Gutsol, wrote on Facebook: “RIP. Media reports said Shachko left a note behind, which said in English: “You are fake”—a sentiment she also shared in an Instagram post on Saturday:

The people who loved Shachko were left to analyze and guess what her message meant, and what made Oksana so depressed and disillusioned. “As far as I know, she was concerned that everything was going wrong,” Femen co-founder Hutsol told Radio Free Europe, adding that “unfortunately” the two had not kept in communication since the group split. Founded in Ukraine a decade ago, Femen is known mainly for protests in which activists often bare their breasts -- sometimes exposing slogans written on their skin -- and disrupt political events or gatherings.
Femen co-founder and activist Oksana Shachko is found dead in her Paris apartment in an apparent suicide. France granted her political refugee status in 2013.