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Foreign Ministry Refuses to Intervene over Jan Rokita's Botched Lufthansa Flight



'What happened at the Munich airport last Tuesday requires a firm intervention from the Polish government, PiS leader Jarosaw Kaczyski said yesterday.

'Elevating it to the level of a political affair would be madness,' replies the Foreign Ministry.

Ex-deputy and minister of internal affairs Jan Rokita was on Tuesday led handcuffed by the German police out of a Lufthansa plane in Munich.


The police and the airline say he kicked up a row with a flight attendant who refused to permit Rokita and his wife, Nelli (as PiS deputy), to put their coats in a locker in business class (they flew economy).

Mr Rokita says it was the flight attendant who started the row, and that the German police then brutally abused him verbally.

'We are treating this as a consular matter. We won't ask the German ambassador for explanations nor elevate it to the rank of a political dispute. Mr Rokita is no longer a member of parliament,' says Alicja Rakowska, director of the Foreign Ministry's press office.

Translated by Marcin Wawrzyczak

ródo: Gazeta Wyborcza

http://wyborcza.pl/1,76842,6270840,Foreign_Ministry_Refuses_to_Intervene_over_Jan_Rokita_s.html







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