The US Embassy has admitted that an American man who verbally abused a Maltese driver in a road rage incident caught on camera is a member of staff.
“The US Embassy can confirm that the subject of this video was an embassy employee who has since departed,” the embassy said in a statement.
“The behaviour depicted in the video did not comport with the standards of behaviour that we expect from all embassy personnel. We greatly regret this incident,” it added, referring to the incident captured on a You Tube video that went viral.
Times of Malta asked whether the man was sacked or transferred as a result of the incident, but an embassy spokeswoman said she had no further comment to make.
The embassy was originally reluctant to confirm or deny any connection with the man; however, Times of Malta yesterday independently established the man was in fact an employee.
The clip – which by yesterday had more than 85,000 hits after it was posted on the video sharing site You Tube on Saturday – shows the American man challenge the Maltese driver to a fight in the middle of the road after the two came nose to nose on the narrow Mrabat Street in Sliema and neither gave way.
At one point, the US...
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