How the Gendarmerie explains the incident at the Russian Embassy where a man was immobilized because he tried to drive into the gate, a charge rejected by prosecutors

The man was immobilized because he made a sudden left turn on Kiseleff Road, where it is one-way, and then directed the car towards the gate of the Russian Embassy, ​​the Bucharest Gendarmerie reports on Tuesday in a response to HotNews after the case was closed on Monday by the prosecutors. The vehicle stopped 20-30 centimeters from the gate, according to the Bucharest Gendarmerie.

The preliminary statement conveys to the press that the man “tried to hit the access gate with his car” was made operational, exclusively based on the observable facts at the time of the intervention, states the Bucharest Gendarmerie. The Prosecutor's Office of the 1st District Court announced on Monday the dismissal of all charges against the 53-year-old doctor involved in the October 23 incident at the Russian Embassy.

“Nothing like that happened. The man was driving, he was going very slowly, but no one tried to enter the premises of the Russian Embassy,” the spokesperson of the Prosecutor's Office of the District 1 Court, Călin Bogdan, told HotNews four days later.

“The vehicle stopped approximately 20-30 cm from the entrance”

At the request of HotNews, the Bucharest Gendarmerie explained the events of the evening of October 23 for which the man was immobilized and how he came to publicly communicate that “he tried to hit the access gate with his car”.

“The driver made a sudden left turn from Shos. Kiseleff (one-way thoroughfare), directing the vehicle towards the gate of the diplomatic objective, located at a relatively short distance from the boulevard. The maneuver took place on a direct path to the gate, despite the stop signals and at a late hour of the night. The vehicle stopped approximately 20-30 cm from the entrance, after the verbal summons of the gendarme”, he sent to the Bucharest Gendarmerie.

These actions were considered “objective indicators” for the gendarmes guarding the Russian Embassy to intervene.

“We specify that this operative hypothesis has no legal value, and substantive evaluations belong to criminal investigation institutions”, concludes the Gendarmerie.

The incident of October 23

“On 23.10.2025, at around 03:15, a man tried to hit the car access gate of a diplomatic objective in sector 1 of the Capital with his car. The gendarme, who was on guard duty, summoned him, managing to stop him. He then requested support, and in a short time, two gendarmerie crews and one anti-terrorist intervention team arrived at the scene SRI

Upon seeing them, the person tried to run away with the vehicle from the area of ​​the objective, but was blocked by the crews that came to support. Upon their summons, the man got out of the vehicle and was immobilized,” the Bucharest Gendarmerie reported on October 23.

After the incident, the Road Brigade opened a criminal case against the man for the crimes of “driving a vehicle without a driver's license” and, in rem, for “driving a vehicle under the influence of other substances”. Both charges were dismissed Monday by the Packet attached to District 1 Court.

“Essentially, the evidence obtained showed that with regard to the crime of driving a vehicle without a driver's license, the suspect did not have his right to drive motor vehicles suspended, but he had previously been issued with a driving license, and with regard to the crime of driving a vehicle under the influence of other substances, according to the toxicological analysis report, no psychoactive substances were identified in the driver's body,” he said. on Monday, through a press release, the Prosecutor's Office of the District Court 1.

Contacted by HotNews on Monday, the doctor said that he arrived at the Embassy of the Russian Federation due to a GPS error, he having no connection with the institution: “The Toyota GPS software was to blame, that's how I got confused (…) I realized at a certain point that I no longer know Bucharest, after so many years when I was a student there.”