judiciary and other bodies.

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On Friday, 53,000 people paid tribute to Adamowicz, who beat the PiS in October, while he lay in state in the museum of the Solidarity movement that helped to usurp communism in Poland.

Police said some 45,000 people had attended the funeral.

Polish authorities have arrested a 27-year-old former convict, named only as Stefan W., over the killing. He was freed last month after serving 5-1/2 years for attempted bank robbery.

The attacker accused the mayor’s former party of putting him in prison, where he said he was tortured, at the event.

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Authorities have detained at least 10 people in recent days over calls on social media to murder and other acts of aggression in the wake of Adamowicz’s death.

Adamowicz was one of 11 PolishThe 28 member states of the European Union unanimously supported a decision on Thursday to reject a proposal from the EU executive to add Saudi Arabia to a blacklist of countries suspected of being lax on terrorist financing and money laundering.

The ill-fated plan infuriated Saudi Arabia as well as the United States and exasperated European capitals. In a rebuke for the EU Commission, the member states said that the proposal "was not established in a transparent and resilient process."

The decision comes after pressure from Riyadh and other listed jurisdictions not to be blacklisted. A letter written by King Salman bin Abdulaziz warned that inclusion would affect the kingdom's reputation and "create difficulties" in trade and investment flows between Saudi and Europe, according to Reuters.

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