Amid rising diplomatic tensions between Russia and the Netherlands, an apartment housing Russian diplomats in The Hague was reportedly broken into and burglarized Thursday night, local media reported.
The house is managed by the Russian embassy, but does not have diplomatic status, NL Times quoted police as saying.
Witnesses described five police vans on site, along with forensic team collecting evidence. Police made no comment about the case. Preliminary results of the investigation are expected on Friday.
Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans stated that he regrets that the incident has occurred, local Telegraaf newspaer quoted an official statement as saying.
According to local media, it is not clear whether there is a connecting to this week’s incident when a Dutch diplomat was attacked in his apartment.
On Tuesday evening two unknown assailants disguised as electricians forced their way into to a Dutch diplomat’s flat in Moscow, tied the man up and beat him, according to police reports. The intruders drew a heart and wrote ‘LGBT’ underneath it at the scene of the crime, Russian media outlet Life News reported, showing photographs of the victim’s flat.
