2024-03-27 15:34:00
By Le Figaro with AFP
Published 2 hours ago, Updated 1 hour ago
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The intelligence services have opened a monitoring investigation into Lieutenant General Jaroslaw Gromadzinski’s access to secret information, following “new information about the officer,” the Polish Defense Ministry said.
The Polish Defense Ministry announced on Wednesday that it had recalled and dismissed “with immediate effect” the Polish commander of the single headquarters, Eurocorps, following a military counterespionage investigation. The intelligence services have “opened a control investigation” on the access of Lieutenant General Jaroslaw Gromadzinski to information covered by secrecy, following “new information about the officer”according to a press release from the Ministry of Defense.
“As a result, a decision was made to remove General Gromadzinski from his position as Commander of the Eurocorps and immediately recall him to his country”indicated the ministry, according to which another officer will be designated for “ensure continuity” to the post occupied until now by the general, and it is “with immediate effect”. No details regarding the new information on the general, nor on the ongoing investigation, were provided by the Polish ministry.
Training of Ukrainian soldiers
Before becoming Commander of the Eurocorps last June, General Gromadzinski was notably advisor-coordinator to the Chief of General Staff of the Polish Army. In recent months, he served as part of the International Assistance Team for Ukraine in Wiesbaden, Germany where, alongside U.S. service members, he was responsible for training Ukrainian soldiers.
Created in 1992, the Eurocorps is a unique army corps bringing together a thousand soldiers from six member countries, known as «nations-cadres» (France, Germany, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg and Poland), which finance and administer the organization. Several “associated nations” (Greece, Turkey, Italy, Romania and Austria) also support the Eurocorps, providing it with officers in the general staff.
This corps, whose mission is to direct and coordinate large-scale multinational operations on behalf of the EU and NATO, can command up to 60,000 ground forces. Eurocorps headquarters is located in Strasbourg.
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