A man died on Wednesday after he rammed his car into the gate of the Russian embassy in Romania and set himself on fire inside the vehicle, police said.
Witness recordings on social networks show the vehicle on fire after crashing into the diplomatic headquarters.
“Until now we cannot say that this act is linked to anything other than the personal circumstances of the driver,” Romanian prosecutor Bogdan Staicu told reporters.
The Romanian media assure that the man directed an NGO for the defense of the parents and that on Tuesday he had been sentenced to 15 years in prison for sexual abuse of his minor daughter.
In his last Facebook post, two days before his death, the man wrote “I am Ukrainian too.” “We should all consider ourselves Ukrainians until this horrible war is over,” he added.
The Russian Investigative Committee, which deals with serious crimes, assured that “it has been reported that it was not an accident, but a planned incident against the Russian representation.”
The building, located in a wealthy area of Bucharest, has been protected by police barriers since the start of the war in Ukraine. The surrounding streets were closed to traffic on Wednesday, an AFP journalist confirmed.
