Protester dives off chamber balcony over cuts

ROMANIA’S Parliament cancelled a no-confidence vote yesterday after a man flung himself from the chamber’s balcony, apparently in protest over the government’s austerity measures. He was not seriously injured.

A loud thud reverberated in the chamber after the man, Adrian Sobaru — identified by the country’s public television station as one of its engineers — hit the benches shortly after Prime Minister Emil Boc greeted the lawmakers. No one else was injured.

Boc looked startled and rushed over to Sobaru, along with other lawmakers, before Speaker Mircea Geoana cancelled the session.