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Former Interior Minister incited attack on Russian Embassy? - paper

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Former Interior Minister Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz ordered to set fire to a guard's booth in front of the Russian Embassy during the Independence  March in 2013, wrote Polish weekly Do Rzeczy. The newspaper claims that it had obtained tapes recorded last year in the restaurant Sowa and Przyjaciele in Warsaw. The conversation between former head of anticorruption office CBA Paweł Wojtunik and then Deputy Prime Minister Elżbieta Bieńkowska allegedly suggests that Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz was the author of the provocation and gave an order to incite riots in front of the Russian Embassy. Cezary Gmyz, a journalist cooperating with the newspaper, informed that he was going to hand over the tapes to a prosecutor's office. Paweł Wojtunik commented that the accusations are "absurd and nonsense." He added that "one can not draw conclusions based on incomplete and edited recordings." Bartłomiej Sienkiewicz commented in the same manner, saying that accusations are "absurd and nonsense." During the Independence March in November 2013 rioters set fire to a guard booth at the entrance to the Russian Embassy. They also threw firecrackers, bottles and stones on the embassy premises.

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