MOSCOW, Apr 6 Before trying to ram the gates of the Russian Embassy in Bucharest, the driver loaded the car with fuel canisters , said Russian Ambassador to Romania Valery Kuzmin. «This morning, apparently, I got into my car — I can’t say this about the ownership of the car, put a couple of cans on the seat next to the driver, and a few more cans in the trunk,» the ambassador said in aired on the Rossiya 24 TV channel.
The Russian Embassy linked the incident in Bucharest with a provocation in Bucha, the diplomat stressed that after law enforcement officers tried to pull the driver out from the car, he set fire to gasoline. Valery Kuzmin did not rule out that he who tried to ram the gates of the Russian embassy could suffer from mental imbalance. «What can you see here? Probably for the relatives of this person, for his mother, perhaps father — this (the death of the driver) is a great tragedy. Probably, he was in a state of passion, he probably suffered from some mental, mental imbalance,» the ambassador said. The Russian Embassy in Bucharest received messages with «bomb threats,» the ambassador said earlier. Earlier, the media, citing sources, reported that the driver, who died crashing into the fence of the Russian embassy in Bucharest, was sentenced to 15 years for sexual abuse of his stepdaughter the day before. bomb threat messages
