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Tourists arrested in Riga: Update from their friends

May 24th, 2007 · 27 Comments · ShareThis

A few days ago, I reported on the arrest of seven Spanish and Portuguese tourists in Riga for damaging a Latvian flag while drunk. Since then, the post has received comments from a couple of friends of the arrested men. I decided to add a new post rather than just comment on the original one, […]

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Categories: Latvia, News

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Drunk tourists arrested for abusing Latvian flag

May 16th, 2007 · 24 Comments · ShareThis

According to a report in the Baltic Times, seven foreign tourists have been arrested in Riga for damaging Latvian flags:
The men were visibly drunk, and officers found more damaged Latvian flags on them, but the vandals had managed to throw some of the flags in the river. The young men have been taken to a […]

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Categories: Latvia, News, Stag & hen

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