Nawrocki vouched for the Gdansk skinhead? Media: Spokeswoman does not deny

PiS presidential candidate Karol Nawrocki denies any closer relations with Gdańsk skinhead Grzegorz Horodka, nicknamed Śledziu. However, as the media have established, Nawrocki was supposed to vouch for him in 2017, when Horodka was detained by the Danish police. The information was obtained from the Gdańsk hooligan community. Did Nawrocki vouch for the Gdańsk skinhead? His campaign does not deny it

According to "Rzeczpospolita", in September 2017, before the Denmark–Poland match in Copenhagen , "the police clashed with Polish fans who were refused entry to the match, and treated one of them exceptionally brutally."

"It quickly turned out, however, that this was no ordinary fan, but Grzegorz Horodko, nicknamed Śledziu , a skinhead from Gdańsk, convicted many times for, among other things, assaults, and linked to the illegal international neo-Nazi organization Blood & Honour," the daily reported. It added that "Danish media published a recording showing that it was Horodko who first started attacking the police officers"; "he was sentenced to 60 days in prison and banned from entering Denmark for six years."

According to the newspaper's findings, "Karol Nawrocki (...), then director of the Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk, vouched for Horodko". It was explained that the information was obtained "in the environment of Gdańsk football hooligans". It was added that the voucher for Horodko was not denied by the presidential candidate's spokeswoman Emilia Wierzbicki.

The editorial team notes that "if Nawrocki vouched for Śledź, he was not the only public figure to do so."

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"A letter in his case was delivered to the Embassy of the Kingdom of Denmark by the then Kukiz'15 MP Sylwester Chruszcz , and the then head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Witold Waszczykowski announced an official intervention. However, in the case of Nawrocki, the guarantee is of particular importance, because it may shed new light on his contacts with Horodko and the Gdańsk hooligan community," the daily emphasized.