Poland closes the Russian consulate in Krakow, responding to the findings of a fire in Warsaw

Warsaw. Poland will close the Russian Consulate in Krakow in response to the fire findings in the Marywilska 44 in Warsaw from May 2024.

This was decided by the Minister of Foreign Affairs Radoslaw Sikorski, who dismissed 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.

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.

Lithuanian authorities were also involved in the clarification of the circumstances, as part of the perpetrators also worked in the territory 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.

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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.

Shopping Center Fire in Warsaw from 12 May 2024. (Source: TASR/AP)