Poland to close last Russian consulate and arrests suspects after railway sabotage
Poland to close last Russian consulate and arrests suspects after railway sabotage
Several arrested in Poland over railway sabotage, state media says
Polish authorities have arrested several people in connection with a blast that damaged a rail line linking Warsaw to the Ukrainian border over the weekend, state media reported Wednesday.
Jacek Dobrzyński, the spokesman for Poland’s secret services minister, said the suspects were being questioned but did not provide details on how many were detained, according to the Polish Press Agency, or PAP.
Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk has described the explosion as an “unprecedented act of sabotage.” Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski said it was “an act of state terror.”
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Sikorski said Wednesday that he will order the closure of the last Russian consulate still operating in the country in response to the attack.
“In connection with this, though it will not be our full response, I have decided to withdraw consent for the operation of the last Russian consulate in Gdansk,” he said.
Two other consulates, in Krakow and Poznan, had been closed in recent years. The Russian embassy in Warsaw remains open.
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