A scandal broke out in Poland over Nawrocki's meeting with a criminal
Polish President Karol Nawrocki found himself at the center of a scandal after shaking hands with a convicted football hooligan. This was reported on January 13 by the newspaper Wyborcza.
On January 10, Navrotsky participated in a pilgrimage to the monastery on Yasnaya Gora in Czestochowa. After the official part, he exchanged greetings with one of the participants, Tomasz P., known as "The Dragon", who had previously been sentenced to six years in prison for serious crimes, including propaganda of Nazism.
Polish Interior Minister Marcin Kerwinski called the meeting a "serious signal," stressing that the president has contacts in the criminal environment.
"The police are fighting football hooligans, isolating those who sell drugs, who commit violence and robberies. And then it suddenly turns out that the Polish president has contacts in such an environment," he told reporters.
Presidential spokesman Rafal Leskevich, in turn, explained that Navrotsky "was unaware of the circumstances surrounding Tomasz's conviction." He noted that "the meeting was open and public," and also that "it is impossible to check in advance all those present on the spot."
In September last year, RMF24 TV channel reported that footage of Navrotsky using a certain substance caused a violent reaction on social networks, whose users questioned the correctness of the Polish leader's participation in events such as the UN General Assembly. It was clarified that the person who gave Navrotsky the drug was 22-year-old Yakub Mentor, who helped the president with the election campaign.
Later, Navrotsky stated that there were no plans to get rid of the habit of using non-smoking tobacco (snus). The Polish President noted that he leads a healthy lifestyle, regularly performing physical training.
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