A drunken tourist searched his hotel and broke into the Romanian Parliament Palace

An Irish citizen who drank a little too much in the old city of Bucharest, thought the "House of the People" was a hotel, climbed over the wall, broke a window and room to one of the widest buildings in the world

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02/01/2022

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A drunken tourist burst into Romania's palace of parliament last week, including climbing a two-meter-high wall, because he thought the Romanian “House of the People” was a hotel.

According to Romanian police, the same man identified as an Irish citizen wandered outside the impressive building around 4am, after a night of debauchery in Bucharest’s old town.

He was not stopped and then entered the yard of the building.

After skipping over the wall, that drunken tourist broke a window and entered the palace, which was built in 1984 on the orders of the ruler Nikolai Ceausescu and also serves as the residence of the Romanian parliament.

The alarm went off and aroused the palace guard who tried to locate the burglar and managed to stop him.

This happened only after the tourist roamed a building and tried to open locked doors, convinced that it was his hotel and not a government building.

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Palace of Parliament in Bucharest (Photo: GettyImages, Laszlo Szirtesi)

During his interrogation the Irish detainee said he was drunk in Bucharest and did not remember how and how he got inside the Parliament Palace.

His bringing to the police station was documented on Romanian television and he was charged with damaging a public building and trespassing, but after a brief hearing it was decided that the tourist posed no danger to the public and he was released within 24 hours and allowed to return to his country.

This act of burglary will be included in a review of the security arrangements at the palace, which was ordered after protesters against the Corona restrictions had previously broken into the building.

The palace has more than 1,000 rooms and over 700 architects worked on its construction for 13 years, until 1997. 70 percent of the building is now orphaned, but its heating, electricity and lighting bills cost more than $ 8 million and it is the most expensive administrative building in the world today.

Apart from that, the Presidential Palace is considered an important tourist site in Romania and in the world in general.

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