On Saturday, December 16, 2017, a group of unknown people abducted the tricolor and the flag of the European Union from the building of the Romanian cultural center "Eudoxiu Hurmuzachi" in Chernivtsi, BucPress reported..

According to the records of the Romanian cultural center "Eudoxiu Hurmuzachi", unknown persons stole the state flag of Romania and the European Union.

At the request of BucPress TV, the leadership of the Romanian Cultural Center provided a videotape of the vandalism act.

Recording is performed by two cameras installed on the facade.

The president of the Romanian cultural center "Eudoxiu Hurmuzachi" in Chernivtsi, Vasily Teritsanu immediately stated that it was done by representatives of the Ukrainian nationalist forces. The police denied these statements. They said that the guys argued that they would remove the flags, there was no political motive in these actions. The young people themselves are residents of Glubokoe District.

The head of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, Pavel Klimkin, condemned the act of vandalism:.

Рішуче засуджую акт ванданізму in the Romanian cultural center "Eudoxiu Hurmuzachi" in Чернівцях. Provocations do not dig into us pocarati і zupiniti dialog on the corridor of the skirts of the people. Same in Chernivtsi vzhe u sichnі govetimemo z @ teodormelescanu about farther spivrobitnitstvo.

- Pavlo Klimkin (@PavloKlimkin) December 18, 2017 Source: IA "ACC".