Press-secretary of the regional court Agneshka Domanska reported that two people have been convicted for insulting a policeman and violating his integrity. One of them will pay a fine and the other will do community service for six months.
Quite possibly in the near future the court will also try the case of three people detained for disorders outside the Russian embassy. One of them set ablaze the guard’s booth outside the embassy and the two others threw stones and fires on the territory of the embassy. Domanska says that the court also has four new cases but it is not certain if they concern those people.
In total the police have arrested 72 people. All in all about 66,000 people took part in the march.
Three of the 72 Polish nationalists arrested in Warsaw suspected of breaching Russian Embassy
Three of the 72 Polish nationalists arrested in Warsaw following the recent Independence Day rioting are suspected of trying to breach the Russian Embassy and setting fire to the Rainbow installation in Warsaw’s Savior Square, Poland’s Interior Minister Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz has said.
Russian embassy’s spokeswoman Valeria Perzhinska told the Voice of Russia that other property of the Russian mission had also suffered damage:
"The Russian embassy had firecrackers, stones, bottles, and break splinters hurled at it. Several items of the embassy’s property were also damaged, including the gate, the intercom system, a post, the guard’s booth and several cars that belong to the Russian diplomatic mission."
Ms. Perzhinska said Polish nationalists frequently staged anti-Russian events, but on a much smaller scale:
"The atmosphere of ethnic conflict is palpable here. We expected some kind of action, although I’d like to repeat that we didn’t think things would go completely out of hand."
Moscow has demanded that the Polish authorities offer an official apology for the November 11 "outrageous acts" that were staged outside the Russian Embassy's compound in Warsaw.
"We demand that the Polish authorities offer an official apology, take exhaustive measures to maintain security and facilitate the normal operations of all of Russia's diplomatic missions in Poland, compensate for the damage caused, punish those guilty and prevent similar provocations in the future," the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
On Tuesday morning, Polish Ambassador to Moscow Wojciech Zajaczkowski was summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry, which lodged a "resolute protest" over the incident in Warsaw.
"The ambassador's attention was drawn to the passive and belated response given by the [Polish] police, a circumstance which made these riots by young roughnecks possible to a large extent," it said.
According to the statement, the action staged by "a thousand-strong crowd of aggressive participants in the so-called Independence March, caused financial damage to the diplomatic mission and disrupted its normal operations for several hours, effectively paralyzing its work." The Russian ministry described the Monday events in the Polish capital as "a very serious violation by Poland's authorities of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations."
Russian Embassy in Poland press officer Valeria Perzhinskaya told the Rossiya 24 television station that three cars and a number of other assets owned by the Russian diplomatic mission were damaged at a result of the November 11 riots.
The situation is quiet now, she said. A new guard's booth was installed outside the embassy because the old one was destroyed by Polish far-right activists on Monday, she added.
"None of the embassy employees were injured," Perzhinskaya said.
Polish police used rubber bullets to break up groups of masked far-right youths when a nationalist march through the Warsaw turned violent on Monday.
Russian foreign office summons Polish ambassador over nationalist attack on Warsaw embassy
The Polish ambassador to Russia has been summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry over the incident near the Russian embassy in Warsaw, the Russian Foreign Ministry posted a statement on Tuesday.
"Polish Ambassador to Russia Wojciech Zajaczkowski has been summoned to the Russian Foreign Ministry due to yesterday's outrageous acts towards the Russian Embassy in Warsaw," the statement said.
The Independence Day was marred by massive riots as a group of a few hundred mostly masked men caused mayhem in the Polish capital during the Monday march.
The youths reportedly set a guard’s booth on fire outside the Russian embassy and tried to climb the fence around the compound.
Warsaw authorities, who initially allowed the nationalist march, declared it illegal after the violence outbreak but that did not stop the rioters.
On Monday, people around the country held celebrations in memory of the country’s regaining sovereignty in 1918 as a result of World War I
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Attack on Polish embassy in Moscow: Video of Russian nationalists throwing flares, smoke bombs
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Protesters threw firecrackers at
the Polish embassy in Moscow on Wednesday in response to a similar
attack on the Russian mission in Warsaw, further straining ties between
countries with a history of troubled relations.
Poland expressed “deep concern” over the incident, one day after Russia’s Foreign Ministry summoned the Polish ambassador to Moscow to demand an apology over Monday’s violence in Warsaw, in which firecrackers were also thrown.
“Poland is demanding detailed explanations from the Russian side on this matter,” the Polish Foreign Ministry said in a statement after the incident outside its Moscow embassy.
Russian police detained three men after the protest, which the opposition group said was intended as a tit-for-tat response to the violence at the Russian embassy in Warsaw after a nationalist march.
The main target of the rioters appeared to have been any symbol of left-wing, liberal views; but for some Poles, the Russian embassy is a symbol of repression during decades of Soviet domination after World War Two.
Grievances between Warsaw and Moscow go back centuries, but modern-day disputes include mutual recriminations over the 2010 plane crash near the Russian city of Smolensk that killed Poland’s president and 95 others.
Poland expressed “deep concern” over the incident, one day after Russia’s Foreign Ministry summoned the Polish ambassador to Moscow to demand an apology over Monday’s violence in Warsaw, in which firecrackers were also thrown.
“Poland is demanding detailed explanations from the Russian side on this matter,” the Polish Foreign Ministry said in a statement after the incident outside its Moscow embassy.
Russian police detained three men after the protest, which the opposition group said was intended as a tit-for-tat response to the violence at the Russian embassy in Warsaw after a nationalist march.
The main target of the rioters appeared to have been any symbol of left-wing, liberal views; but for some Poles, the Russian embassy is a symbol of repression during decades of Soviet domination after World War Two.
Grievances between Warsaw and Moscow go back centuries, but modern-day disputes include mutual recriminations over the 2010 plane crash near the Russian city of Smolensk that killed Poland’s president and 95 others.
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