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Australian police charged a man on Monday after a car was driven into the gates of the Russian consulate in Sydney.
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.
Police said the man was arrested and charged with allegedly seeking to “enter enclosed land … without lawful excuse”, possession of a knife in a public place and three counts of trying to “destroy or damage property”.
He was refused bail, police said.
A neighbour who witnessed the incident said he saw the car force its way through the gates after the driver was instructed to step out of the vehicle.
“The policemen continued to ask him to get out of the car. He didn’t get out of the car. They drew their firearms,” he said, declining to give his name. “It was quite dramatic on a Monday morning.”

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 arrive at the scene.
A low loader later took a white vehicle away from the grounds of the consulate, a witness said.
The consulate was briefly closed before reopening, said people behind a police cordon who had Monday visa appointments.
Earlier, television footage from Australian TV networks Sky News and Nine had shown a car with a smashed window abandoned next to a Russian flagpole on the grounds of Russia’s consulate in the Sydney suburb of Woollahra.
“Get out of the car now,” police shouted at the man in the car inside the grounds, according to an eyewitness video of the incident.
Pro-Kremlin influencer Simeon Boikov, who has been holed up at the consulate for 1,000 days after he was charged with assaulting a pro-Ukraine protester in Sydney, said he was woken by the sound of police sirens at about .30 am.
Initially thinking there was a fire next door, he emerged to find the Toyota parked on the consulate’s lawn. Boikov said the driver was already being pursued by police as he drove through the compound’s gates.
“From my side, it looks like a diplomatic asylum attempt,” Boikov said.
Additional reporting by Australian Associated Press, Agence France-Presse


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.css-1c6uqr6{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;overflow-wrap:break-word;}The 39-year-old man had driven into the grounds in what a witness said looked like a ‘diplomatic asylum attempt’.

The 39-year-old man had driven into the grounds in what a witness said looked like a ‘diplomatic asylum attempt’.