A drunk man has been arrested for breaking into the Presidential Villa after ‘mistaking it for his hotel’ during a night out.
Gatekeepers News reports that an Irishman broke into the Romanian Presidential Palace, in Bucharest, reaching the third floor of the building in a breach that has ignited a review into the security of the People’s House.
According to MailOne, the Irish citizen was caught fleeing after he jumped over a fence and escaped from the Defence and Protection Service.
When interrogated by police, he was unable to remember how he broke in.
The sprawling communist structure, constructed between 1984 and 1997, is the world’s second-biggest administrative building by surface area after the US Pentagon. It has a floor area of 365,000 square metres (3,930,000 sq ft).
It holds the Guinness World Record for being the planet’s heaviest building for the 700,000 tonnes of steel and bronze combined with 35.3million cubic feet (1 million cubic m) of marble, 3,500 tonnes of crystal glass and 31.7million cubic feet (900,000 cubic m) of wood.
“Palace of Parliament has protection systems developed by The Securitatae (the former secret police of Communist Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu),” a source told the Irish Sun.
“It is a mystery how this guy managed to get in.”
