Five cars registered in Romania burned down in Rome

Romania's Foreign Ministry (MAE), through the Romanian Embassy in Rome has taken action in relation to an incident on Sunday morning that involved five cars registered in Romania being burned down in the streets in Italy's capital city.

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MAE reports that the embassy followed the legal procedures with the Rome Firefighter Command and the Central Command of Carabinieri in Rome to get official information about the circumstances in which the incident happened and about the identity of the owners of the burned down cars.

According to first reports, there was no human casualty involved.

MAE, via the Romanian Embassy in Rome, is watching the case very closely, pending an official answer from the local authorities.

'The Foreign Ministry has noticed that this is not the first time when such an incident happen in the Italian capital city when cars bearing Romanian number plates are burned down, which induces a suspicion that such acts could be of a xenophobic nature as well. Given the context, the Foreign Ministry is voicing its expectation that the local authorities will very seriously investigate the incident that occurred on March 1, 2015 in the morning , including from the perspective of an action motivated by xenophobia ,' MAE says in a press release. AGERPRES