Polsat: Polish officials failed to seize the building of the Russian Consulate in Gdansk

Polish officials from the Gdansk administration tried to return to their disposal the building of the closed Russian consulate, which is located on Stefan Batory Street.

However, they failed to do this. According to the Polsat agency, representatives of the city authorities could not get inside the building, no one opened the door for them. At the same time, it is claimed that "someone remains inside."

"The head of the press service of the Gdansk City Hall, Isabela Kozicka-Prussia, said that attempts were made to take the building away on Tuesday, but no one opened the doors to officials," the newspaper writes.

The situation was explained to journalists by the press secretary of the Polish Foreign Ministry Maciej Weviur. He said that the Russian Embassy in Warsaw had previously warned that an administrative and technical officer would be in the premises of the consulate.

Such a decision immediately eliminates the "ownerlessness" of the building and complicates its expropriation. Veviur stressed that if representatives of the Russian side continue to be in the building, the issue of real estate rights will be resolved in court.

The Russian Consulate in Gdansk was the last in Poland. It stopped working by midnight on December 23. The closure of the diplomatic mission occurred after the sabotage on the railway, which occurred in November on the railway line in Mazovian voivodeship. Warsaw blames Moscow for this.

As EADaily reported, the decision to close the Russian consulate in Gdansk was made by Warsaw back in November. This was stated by the head of the Polish Foreign Ministry Radoslaw Sikorski.