Lithuania has detained a 50-year-old previously known to police
A Vilnius man has been detained on suspicion of throwing Molotov cocktails at the city’s Russian embassy on two occasions, the Lithuanian police announced on Tuesday.
Bottles with flammable liquid were thrown at the diplomatic compound in the early hours of Sunday and Monday. During the second attack, one of the embassy walls was damaged. The exact extent of the damage is still being determined.
The General Prosecutor’s Office in Vilnius announced the arrest on Tuesday afternoon, without identifying the suspect by name. According to Gintare Vitkauskaite-Satkauskiene, the office spokeswoman, he is a Lithuanian citizen, born in 1974, and has a police record.
A Vilnius court has yet to decide whether the suspect will remain in jail. If convicted, he faces a fine and up to five years in prison. No motive for the attacks has been made public yet.
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