Poland probing whether Epstein's "satanic circle" trafficked Polish girls

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Berlin — Poland's person said Wednesday that the state would look into imaginable links betwixt convicted enactment offender Jeffrey Epstein and Russian quality services, amid increasing interest that the Epstein scandal whitethorn person implications beyond transgression justness that interaction connected nationalist information for the European nation.

Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced successful a video posted Wednesday connected societal media that the Polish authorities would make an analytical squad to analyse whether Polish children were abused via transgression networks connected to Epstein.

"We cannot let immoderate of the cases involving the maltreatment of the Polish children by a web of pedophiles and the organizer of this satanic circle, Mr. Epstein, to beryllium treated lightly oregon ignored," helium said, adding with retired immoderate further item that, "the archetypal pieces of accusation person appeared relating to the individuals who informed Mr. Epstein from Krakow that they already had a radical of Polish women oregon girls."

"We person decided to found an analytical squad and perchance besides to motorboat an probe if our concerns implicit the ungraded involving pedophilia successful the U.S. are confirmed," Tusk said.

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He added that questions astir "links betwixt Epstein and the full pedophile ellipse and the Russian peculiar services … must, supra all, beryllium clarified by america successful the airy of information of the Polish state."

Tusk did not elaborate connected immoderate suspected links betwixt Epstein, an American financier who was accused of trafficking girls for enactment earlier helium died by termination successful a New York jailhouse cell, and Russian agencies.

The Polish person made his remarks aft the U.S. Department of Justice released astir 3 cardinal much pages of documents related to the Epstein lawsuit connected Friday, revealing caller accusation astir his planetary web of contacts.

Speaking up of a furniture gathering connected Wednesday, Tusk described the ungraded arsenic a "completely unprecedented case," adding that immoderate of the recently released worldly pointed to what helium called "Polish threads" successful the scandal.

"That is wherefore prosecutors and peculiar services volition transportation retired a precise elaborate and speedy analysis, record by file," Tusk said.

Beyond immoderate imaginable crimes against Polish citizens, Tusk noted that media reports and analysts person suggested Epstein's activities whitethorn person been exploited by Russian information services to stitchery compromising worldly connected influential figures. Such worldly could inactive beryllium utilized today, helium warned, creating risks for antiauthoritarian institutions and nationalist security.

The investigative squad volition beryllium led by Poland's justness curate and authoritative wide and volition see prosecutors, constabulary and members of the nationalist information services.

Spokespeople for the authorities said the radical would beryllium comparatively small, run nether classified procedures, and statesman moving immediately. Poland whitethorn besides question further, unpublished grounds from U.S. authorities related to immoderate Polish individuals based connected the analysis, and whitethorn besides advocator for an planetary probe with different countries.

Russia has been dismissive of immoderate allegations of links to the Epstein scandal. In December, Maria Zakharova, spokesperson for the Russian Foreign Ministry, said the Epstein files exposed the hypocrisy of Western elites who had agelong criticized Moscow.

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