Poland closed the Russian Consulate in Krakow after revealing the connection of a fire in Warsaw with Russian special services.
Poland will close the Russian Consulate in Krakow in response to findings on fire in the shopping center of Marywilska 44 in Warsaw of May 2024. The Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski decided on Monday, withdrawing consent to its operation. This is reported by the Warsaw newsletter TASR, according to the Minister’s X -Network and the Polish Ministry of Justice reports.
“Given the evidence that Russian special services have committed a convicted sabotage act against the Marywilska shopping center, I decided to withdraw my consent to the operation of the Consulate of the Russian Federation in Krakow,” the Minister wrote in the paper.
Evidence of arson
According to the findings of the investigative authorities, it was a targeted act of diversion organized and controlled from the territory of the Russian Federation. The Lithuanian authorities were also involved in the clarification of the circumstances, as part of the perpetrators also worked in Lithuania.
The investigation required extraordinary measures, inspections of the game lasted 121 days and were attended by 55 prosecutors and 100 police officers with the support of experts and technicians. More than 70 witnesses and 530 damaged persons were heard.
Details of the perpetrators
On the basis of the evidence, it was found that the burden was stood by the persons acting on order and aim to document the act of sponsor. Many of the suspects are already in custody, others are identified and seeking. The Polish authorities have declared that they were determined to punish all actors of these acts.
