Drunken Belarusian diplomat smashed three cars in Vilnius (Photo, video)

An officer of the Belarusian Embassy in Lithuania explained to policemen that he had got extremely tired at work and fell asleep behind the wheel.

On October 6 at about 9.15 p.m. in Vilnius at the crossing of Naugarduko and Algirdo Streets a counsellor of the Belarus Embassy Yaraslau Diktiyeuski in a car VW Jetta with green diplomatic number plates crashed into a standing Renault minibus, which banged into a BMW car, DELFI reports.

The Belarusian diplomat driving VW Jetta has not been injured, and there were no people in the other cars. As said by the policemen, the diplomat was dead drunk, but he resfued to be tested by an alcohol-screening device. He explained to the policemen that he had become extremely tired at work and fell asleep behind the wheel.

The police could not detain the counsellor who had diplomatic immunity, that is why they had to give him in charge of the representatives of the Belarusian Embassy who arrived to the scene (the Embassy is situated nearby, in Mindaugo Street). The representatives of the Belarusian embassy removed the state number plates from the crashed car of the Embassy. It was as VW Jetta was damaged to the degree it could not move by itself.

The Belarusian diplomat at the accident scene was obviously drunk. The driver of another car of the embassy who arrived later attacked the journalist of LNK Jaunus Matonis who was shooting the accident. Without presenting himself the man demanded to stop filming and uttered threats “to punch in the face” in Russian. When other journalists who were working at the scene came to his aid, and explained to the man he was not in Belarus, he calmed down. But only after Matonis switched off the camera after he finished filming. Then, groaning, the angry man started to collect details of the broken car of the embassy.