2023-04-29 17:40:47
Poland seizes Russian Lyceum building in Warsaw, Russia promises response
Poland seized the building of the Russian high school in Warsaw on Saturday, we learned from the Polish Foreign Ministry. “This building will now belong to the Warsaw City Hall”ministry spokesman Lukasz Jasina told Agence France-Presse by telephone, confirming that it is a procedure of “referral by bailiff” on behalf of the municipality.
“It is an illegal act, an incursion into a diplomatic site”, denounced, for his part, the Russian ambassador in Warsaw, Sergei Andreyev, in a video broadcast by the Russian public agency RIA Novosti. Russia will retaliate from the “principle of reciprocity”he warned. “The school will continue its activities in other premises of the Russian diplomatic mission, we will ensure a good end of the school year for our children and the organization of exams”said Mr. Andreyev.
In a statement from March 2022, the Polish Foreign Ministry announced that “by their decisions having the force of law, the Polish courts have ordered [aux autorités de la Fédération russe] to return the two buildings to their rightful owner, i.e. to the State Treasury” Polish. According to the Polish Ministry, the Russian Federation therefore occupied them “illegally”.
The Russian high school was installed in a building nationalized by the Polish State in 1945, then transferred by the Communists to the Russian authorities in 1953. According to the Polish authorities, this operation had been carried out “without legal basis”.
A year ago, Warsaw City Hall seized a former Russian diplomatic site, the subject of a legal dispute between Poland and Russia and nicknamed by Warsaw residents “nest of spies”, to offer it to Ukraine, which is fighting Russian forces. At the time, these were ten-storey buildings built in the 1970s in the south of the capital, which had been used in the past by Soviet diplomats and then by the Embassy of the Russian Federation. .
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