When someone's vehicles burn in front of a foreign embassy in the middle of Skopje, it stops being ordinary arson - it becomes a diplomatic incident that could cost far more than four torched cars. That's why the investigation into the burning of the Bulgarian embassy's vehicles was taken over by the Prosecutor's Office for Organized Crime and Corruption, and the offense was reclassified as a more serious one. The fire broke out on June 15 around noon on Mitropolit Teodosij Gologanov Boulevard, right in front of the embassy building. According to the evidence secured, the vehicles were deliberately set on fire, and among those endangered were persons under international protection - the military attaché and other diplomatic representatives. That is precisely what shifts the weight of the case: from „causing general danger" to „endangering persons under international protection," an offense carrying a prison sentence of at least one year. The suspect is a 44-year-old Skopje resident, who has been ordered into an additional 30 days of detention. According to police, he confessed to the act back at the station. One detail makes the story even stranger - the suspect reportedly bears a tattoo of Vladimir Putin's face. Whether this is an isolated act by a man with odd sympathies or something broader, the investigation has yet to show. The question hanging over the whole case is one of security: how is it possible for a foreign embassy's vehicles to be set on fire in broad daylight, in the center of the capital, with no one reacting in time? Diplomatic facilities should be among the most heavily guarded spots in the country. If security failed here, where else is it failing - and who will answer if next time the target isn't just a car?