Polish official suspended after depicting Donald Tusk as SS officer

Poland's Foreign Ministry has suspended one of its honorary consuls in the US after the woman posted a digitally-altered image showing European Council President Donald Tusk dressed as a Nazi German SS officer.

Polish state news agency PAP reported Sunday that further decisions regarding Maria Szonert-Binienda, recently named honorary consul in Akron, Ohio, will be decided after Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski returns from a visit to Australia.

Ms Szonert-Binienda told PAP that her social media account had been hacked.

Poland's conservative ruling Law and Justice party is at deep odds with Mr Tusk, a former Polish prime minister.

Party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski has been a long-time political rival of Mr Tusk.

One of Mr Tusk's grandfathers served briefly in the German Wehrmacht during the Second World War, something his political opponents have used against him.

AP