Newe Review for Poland
The fatal shooting of a veterinarian in Warsaw last week was apparently just the tip of the iceberg when it came to trigger-happy law enforcement agents. In a Jelenia Góra courtroom, officers from an anti-terrorist squad shot two out of eight gang members, charged with theft, extortion, and manslaughter, dead after the defendants detonated two grenades in the corridor. Three policemen were injured by grenade splinters. Police spokesman Paweł Biedziak said a preliminary investigation indicated that the squad acted properly and fired only when there no one could be caught in the cross-fire. Interior Minister Marek Biernacki commented that: "Crime is becoming increasingly brutal today and the courts have to be prepared for it. It is a sad thing that two persons died in the melee but it was the criminals who started shooting. The police reacted correctly." President Kwaśniewski noted that: "Until now we thought that such things could happen only in foreign movies." As a reaction to this incident the Ministry of Justice has decided to install metal-detector gates in larger courthouses in Poland. The Polish press, based on the defendants' hyper-active bladders prior to the incident, speculated that the grenades had been hidden in the courthouses toilets.
The following day, in the north-western city of Szczecin, another anti-terrorist unit had been watching too many action movies and succeeded in thoroughly demolishing one apartment, damaging the walls in an adjacent one, destroying a staircase, and smashing a number of windows in the building as well as in neighbouring blocks. Not bad for a day's work; fortunately no one was actually hurt. The unit was trying to blast down the door of the flat to get to the criminals inside, only they used a bit too much force. Well, they did manage to get the door down and caused an estimated PZL 300,000 (USD 73,000) in material damages, which will be covered by the State Treasury. Link
The fatal shooting of a veterinarian in Warsaw last week was apparently just the tip of the iceberg when it came to trigger-happy law enforcement agents. In a Jelenia Góra courtroom, officers from an anti-terrorist squad shot two out of eight gang members, charged with theft, extortion, and manslaughter, dead after the defendants detonated two grenades in the corridor. Three policemen were injured by grenade splinters. Police spokesman Paweł Biedziak said a preliminary investigation indicated that the squad acted properly and fired only when there no one could be caught in the cross-fire. Interior Minister Marek Biernacki commented that: "Crime is becoming increasingly brutal today and the courts have to be prepared for it. It is a sad thing that two persons died in the melee but it was the criminals who started shooting. The police reacted correctly." President Kwaśniewski noted that: "Until now we thought that such things could happen only in foreign movies." As a reaction to this incident the Ministry of Justice has decided to install metal-detector gates in larger courthouses in Poland. The Polish press, based on the defendants' hyper-active bladders prior to the incident, speculated that the grenades had been hidden in the courthouses toilets.
The following day, in the north-western city of Szczecin, another anti-terrorist unit had been watching too many action movies and succeeded in thoroughly demolishing one apartment, damaging the walls in an adjacent one, destroying a staircase, and smashing a number of windows in the building as well as in neighbouring blocks. Not bad for a day's work; fortunately no one was actually hurt. The unit was trying to blast down the door of the flat to get to the criminals inside, only they used a bit too much force. Well, they did manage to get the door down and caused an estimated PZL 300,000 (USD 73,000) in material damages, which will be covered by the State Treasury. Link
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