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The fact that E. Mickus has been removed from his post was confirmed by DELFI by Rasa Jakilaitienė, representative of Linas Linkevičius, Acting Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Furthermore, the diplomat’s name has disappeared from the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The diplomat’s withdrawal coincided with a painful event, in which E. Mickus himself is suspected of being involved. This became the pretext for the Kremlin-controlled channels not only to remember the event again, but also to put it on propaganda.
Hitting a woman in a crosswalk
The history of the incident itself is a few weeks old. . On November 25, around 9 a.m., at the intersection of Kronverskaya and Zverinskaya streets in St. Petersburg, in a pedestrian crossing, a Volvo car crashed and injured a woman passing through the intersection.
As can be seen in the video of the event posted online, the pedestrian crossing the intersection suddenly accelerates, despite a line of cars approaching her from the left. A car does not stop and does not miss a pedestrian.
After the collision with the car, the woman flew through the roof of the car and fell from the driveway near the tram rails. The video shows a man getting out of a car and reaching for the victim, trying to help her up.
In this image the recording is interrupted, supposedly made by a video camera on the street. Russian media later reported that the woman had been taken to hospital. The Russian channel Rossija 24 showed and named a woman who, according to the channel, was injured during the event: Ksenia Kozhevnikova. It is said that he has had multiple bone fractures, he does not control his left leg.
According to preliminary data, the car that obstructed the pedestrian was driven by the Lithuanian diplomat E. Mickus. He was also quick to publish it in the Russian media. Immediately after the incident, the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry reported on the accident, which involved a Lithuanian diplomat. E. Mickus is said to have driven the car soberly. Diplomatic immunity protects a diplomat from criminal liability in a foreign state.
Russia wants to judge Lithuania
This is the fact that the Russian propaganda media noticed not only after the event, but also a few weeks later. Initially, articles were added recalling that Lithuanian diplomats had caused more similar car accidents in Russia in 2004 and 2009.
And on Monday, the Rossija 24 report turned up a car accident record, showing that the driver immediately got out of the car, although it is believed that he was in no rush.
Also shown is another secretly filmed recording of a person entering the Lithuanian consulate, presented by E. Mickumi.
“A Lithuanian citizen enters the consulate premises as if nothing had happened, because his policemen could not stop him because he has diplomatic immunity,” the report says, emphasizing that the Lithuanian diplomat had left Russia and thus evaded his responsibility. appointed diplomat.
Lithuania also confirmed the revocation of diplomat E. Mickus. According to the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry, E. Mickus was removed from Russia and returned to Lithuania on December 3.
“The employee who caused the car accident in which the person was injured was removed from his current position at the Consulate General in St. Petersburg. The employee left the Russian Federation on December 3. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia was informed in advance about such a decision by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania. Legal procedures are currently being carried out in accordance with the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations and the LT-RF Bilateral Consular Convention, ”R. Jakilaitienė, representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told DELFI on Tuesday morning.
However, the Russian media are not calm. Sergejus Sidorov, who was interviewed and introduced to the victim’s husband and father of a two-year-old boy, said the Lithuanian diplomat did not apologize or offer help.
Liudmila Aivar, who at the time was a deserved Russian lawyer, assured that Russia could request Lithuania to annul and judge the immunity of the Lithuanian diplomat who caused the accident. The report provides several international examples, such as how a Sakartwell diplomat in the United States caused an accident and lost diplomatic immunity.
Furthermore, according to Roscia 24, Mr. Mickus was not clear about what he was doing in Saint Petersburg and allegedly testified that he had not noticed the pedestrian.
Furthermore, the same report makes even stranger links between the car accident and Lithuanian-Russian relations. Suddenly, a quote from the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zacahrova, recalled that the relations between Lithuania and Russia were stagnant. Also, according to Roscia 24, it is not at all clear what Mickus was doing in St. Petersburg.
Alexander Belyaev, a former colonel in the Russian Federal Security Service who was already loved by Rossiya 24, questioned the benefits of relations with countries “that support hatred of Russians and the Soviet past” and suggested that the Lithuanian diplomat might even have been an intelligence officer.
At the time, Russia seemed reluctant to forget about the incident, as the head of Russia’s investigative committee, Putin’s comrade Alexander Bastrykin, had taken the initiative and commissioned a thorough investigation. Finally, a video is presented on another website, 78.ru, in which the victim’s brother introduces an unnamed person in the car and tells the camera how he will seek to have his driving license revoked for good. to the Lithuanian diplomat.
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