Part II
“What happened? Why should American tourists revise the routes of their travels and deprive themselves of the opportunity to see the beauty of one of the world centers of culture and art?
According to American newspapers, the reason for this is more than obvious. On the night of August 2 p. G. The vigilant guard of the US Consulate General in Leningrad, the Marine Corps sergeant Ronald Campbell, during a night walk, noticed a suspicious car in the consulate and decided to find out what was the matter. Further events developed as in detective novels: the police delay Campbell, beats it, puts it in a “local prison”, etc. Maybe it would not be worth tiring the reader with these details if there were no facts that, as you know, is a stubborn thing. . Every resident of our city will easily present the scene, if we say that R. Campbell was detained by police officers on the corner of Lithuania Prospekt and Tchaikovsky Street. The cozy mansion on Peter Lavrov Street is not so far away, but the “line of defense” of the territory of the US General Consulate General of the United States, excited by drunk, spent, to put it mildly, arbitrarily. Perhaps this circumstance will be able to explain the American diplomats that have been that had been completed in such matters, but it is unlikely that the stones of the cars passed by the stones of the cars and the obscene abuse are included in the arsenal of actions prescribed by the charter of the US Marine Corps ….
This is not the only misconduct of our hero. Several excerpts from the explanations of the victim and police protocols. “I, Yukka Kalevi Surya, spent his free time in the Pulkovskaya hotel currency bar, while the incident with two Americans, whom I do not know, occurred. I also can’t say anything about the reasons for the quarrel. During a conversation with police officers on July 12 p. G. I learned in one of the photographs of the person who beat me. ” “In the beating of Finnish specialists who took place on July 11 p. G. in the chole of the currency bar of the Pulkovskaya hotel was attended by employees of the US Consulate General in Leningrad Ronald Campbell and Rodney Hoffman. ”
The unbelievable hooligans could not calm down even when those called at the request of indignant witnesses, among whom were foreign tourists, police officers tried to restore order and protect the Finnish citizen from further reprisal.
In the process of trial, which took place in the office of the police, Campbell and Hoffman behaved defiantly, not stinting at threats and obscene abuse. Moreover, presenting his consular card, R. Campbell hit the police officer on the head and hand (according to the conclusion of a medical examination, the police officer received bruises of the cervical spine and the right forearm)
So the US State Department could be given some additional clarifications to their citizens who want to visit Leningrad as tourists ”Caution: the Consulate General is guarded by the Marine Corps” ”” ”
(“Leningradskaya Pravda”, August 10, 1984)
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