A man was arrested on Monday after a car crashed into the Russian consulate in Sydney, Australian police said.
New South Wales police said in a statement that officers responded shortly after 8am to reports of an unauthorised vehicle parked in the driveway of an address on Fullerton Street that corresponded with the location of the Russian consulate.
Officers attempted to speak to the driver before he “drove his vehicle into the gates of the property”, police said. A 39-year-old man was arrested and a 24-year-old constable received an injury to his hand, the statement said.
A person answering a phone at the consulate declined to comment on the incident.
Tim Enright, a construction worker who was on the roof of a nearby building at the time, said he saw a police officer taking photos of a car parked near the consulate around 8am.
He said he then heard sirens and a police helicopter arrived at the scene.
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