It recently became known that the delegation of South African President Cyril Ramaphosa was blocked on a plane that landed in Poland.
In particular, security officers of the African head of state and journalists from this country are not released from there.
About this MIA “Russia Today” with reference to the publication News24.
Polish authorities refused to allow security personnel to leave the ramp on Thursday, throwing the operational plans of the police and South African National Defense Force into disarray. – the material says.
Statement from the head of the Security Service
Attention is drawn to the fact that the head of the Presidential Security Service, Major General Wally Rood, brought charges of sabotage and racism against Warsaw.
He said officials at the South African Embassy in Warsaw contacted local police and customs.
They demanded to provide various documents with permits, and in many cases they refused to speak English,” the general complained.
The Russian news agency writes that a black employee of the South African Presidential Security Service was strip-searched before being allowed on the plane.
Rood regarded this fact as a manifestation of racism on the part of the Polish side towards the delegation from South Africa.
What they say in Poland
But representatives of the Polish Border Guard say that the guards accompanying the South African leader voluntarily remained in the plane.
And the department explains the fact that they were not released by the fact that they had weapons without permission to import them into the country.
It is not reported why the journalists were not released.
Later, the Polish Foreign Ministry informed that the detention of the plane carrying Ramaphosa’s guard was due to hazardous materials identified on board the plane, for the import of which the delegation did not have permission.
In addition, the Foreign Ministry drew attention to the fact that there were citizens on the plane who had not previously been reported to Warsaw.
The President of South Africa himself is in Kyiv, where he visits some locations in the city. He is also scheduled to meet with Vladimir Zelensky there.
