Baltic Visitor

Following a string of incidents involving tourists behaving badly at the Freedom Monument in Riga, a British visitor to the city has been imprisoned for five days for urinating on Latvia’s most potent symbol of the struggle for independence. I would like to think that the sentence will deter others, but having seen the behaviour […]

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The Baltic Times reports on the court hearing which dealt with the British citizen who was arrested for urinating close to the Freedom Monument while his friends took photographs. He was not present in court, having been allowed to leave the country, and was fined €64 for a charge of ‘petty hooliganism’. Unsuprisingly, he was […]

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The evening of Tuesday 5th June saw another incident involving Riga’s police and foreign tourists. The Baltic Times reports that four British tourists were engaged in a brawl with local residents when the police arrived at around 9pm. During the ensuing fracas, one of the tourists is said to have sprayed tear gas into the […]

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Dr Joachim Neumann reports that three of the seven tourists arrested for damaging the Latvian flag have now been released without charge.
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