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Romanian flings himself from parliament balcony
Quick ReadRomanian man flings himself from Parliament balcony in apparent anti-austerity protest
Photo credit: AP | Adrian Sobaru, an electrician at the national television station throws himself from a balcony in Romania's Parliament, Thursday, Dec. 23, 2010, just as the prime minister began to speak ahead of a no-confidence vote. Sobaru suffered fractures to the face, and other non life-threatening injuries, according to a hospital official.(AP Photo/Bogdan Stamatin/Mediafax Foto) ROMANIA OUT: CREDIT MANDATORY
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(AP) — A Romanian television engineer apparently distraught that budget cuts had reduced benefits for his autistic teenage son dived more than 20 feet (about seven meters) from a balcony onto the floor of Romania's parliament Thursday, then shouted "Freedom!" as emergency workers took him out on a stretcher.
The man's cry echoed those heard during the 1989 revolution that toppled communism...
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