US Secret Service on attack on the Cuban Embassy: "There was no fire or significant damage to the building"

The United States Secret Service began investigations related to the alleged Molotov cocktail attack suffered this Sunday night at the headquarters of the Cuban Embassy in Washington.

“There was no fire or significant damage to the building,” the US Secret Service declared to and other American media that reported the event, which occurred shortly after 8 pm (local time) on Sunday.

For its part, NBC He stated that Secret Service agents were called around 8 pm on Sunday. Anthony Guglielmi, a spokesperson for the Secret Service, said Monday that someone had thrown an "alleged incendiary device" against the building.

The version of the event offered by the Cuban authorities indicated that the diplomatic legation He had been hit by two Molotov cocktails..

“Today night, 9/24, the Cuban Embassy in the United States was the target of a terrorist attack by an individual who threw 2 Molotov cocktails. There were no injuries to personnel. The details are being specified,” said the Cuban Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodriguez Grill.

However, the information published by American media points to “an aggressor who threw a Molotov cocktail against the building” and that “there was no fire or significant damage to the building after the device was thrown,” according to statements offered by the Secret Service.

According to this service, in charge of the security of embassies and diplomatic headquarters, No one is in custody at this time and they are working closely with embassy officials, DC police and the US State Department on the investigation..

“After last night's terrorist attack against our Embassy was perpetrated, we immediately contacted the US authorities, who were given access to the Mission to take samples of the Molotov cocktails,” he said in X Lianys Torres Rivera, Head of the Cuban Mission in the United States.

Photographs shared in his publication showed three Secret Service agents who entered the entrance of the building to begin investigations. Judging by the images, the alleged attack was unsuccessful, as it barely managed to singe a square meter of façade and garden.

However, for the ruler Miguel Diaz-Canel, this “act of violence and impotence could cost valuable lives”. Faithful to the rhetoric of his "continuity", the ruler blamed the authorship of the alleged attack on the "haters", the name with which the regime identifies its detractors.