"The issue of ensuring public order is not in the embassies responsibility, all these activities were conducted on the public domain. (...) From the beginning, considering that there were elements of risk, the police set –up some protection fences to ensure queues and they sent people in to ensure public order, " Melescanu said.
Asked if the Romanians against whom they used tear gas had been acting violently, Melescanu said, "When they tried to set the gate of the embassy on fire, there occurred scandals and assaults. At that time, police intervened because, the prefect of Paris said, it was the duty of the prefect and nobody besides the prefect of Paris had the right to require police intervention, to tell them what to use. "