A woman has been blamed for her own sexual assault in Mexico City after CCTV of a man pulling down her underwear as she walked leisurely in the street during the day was posted to social media.

Andrea Noel, a freelance journalist living in Mexico City, obtained the footage of her own attack on Tuesday and posted the video to her personal Twitter account the following day, to advocate for herself and other victims of sexual assault.

CCTV footage shows a man creeping behind Andrea Noel with his hands up her skirt. Picture: Twitter/metabolizedjunk More

“My dress was pulled up and my underwear pulled down in the middle of the street at #Condesa,” she wrote following the incident on Tuesday on broad daylight.

The footage of the attack captures the moment a man sneaks up on the woman, dressed in a mid-thigh length dress, lifts it up and pulls her underwear down. The woman falls to the ground as the man runs away.

“If anyone recognizes this idiot, please identify him,” she wrote in Spanish with the video post. “Women should be able to walk safely.”