MOSCOW. March 28 (Interfax-Moscow) - A drunken
58-year-old Muscovite threatened to blow up the U.S. embassy
on Thursday, a source with the Moscow police told Interfax on
Friday.
A telephone threat to bomb the embassy
was received by the police at 6:30 p.m. The call was traced to
an apartment in the southwestern outskirts of the city. A
rapid reaction squad was sent to the location, and detained a
man who admitted to having called in a false threat. The man
was in a condition of heavy intoxication.
A criminal case was opened under Article
207 on intentional false reports of acts of terrorism, which
entails a maximum prison term of three years. [RU EUROPE EEU
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