Japan ultra-right nationalist rams in barriers at Russia embassy
17:57, 27 July 2009
TOKYO. July 27. KAZINFORM A member of a Japanese ultra-right organisation rammed by car into the police barriers at the Russian Embassy in Tokyo. No casualties were reported in the incident, a source in the Russian embassy said, Kazinform refers to Itar-Tass.
According to the police, builder Hitoshi Kitano, 39, rammed by car at about 23.07 Tokyo time (18.07 Moscow time) on Sunday into the metallic barriers placed in front of the main gates of the embassy. "Still he was detained for hampering the work of the embassy guards. The investigation into the incident is underway. The investigators are trying to determine the motives of this offence and its goals," a source in the Japanese main police department told Itar-Tass.
Eyewitnesses said during the arrest the man was crying out anti-Russian slogans, particularly demanding to return "the northern territories", how Japan calls the Russian Southern Kuriles, Kazinform cites Itar-Tass. See www.itar-tass.com for full version.