Police get English lessons and tips on dealing with fans
POLISH police are getting English lessons in order to prepare them for the influx of football fans.
Gardai will also be travelling to Poland in the coming months to advise the police force about how Irish fans behave and how to defuse any situations involving drunk fans. Continue reading
Polish prosecutor who shot himself at press conference ‘had $800,000 bounty on his head’
The Polish military prosecutor who shot himself in the head on Monday just moments after cutting short a press conference claims he had a US$782,000 contract on his head.
Colonel Mikolaj Przybyl said Tuesday his suicide attempt was an effort to expose what he called “serious corruption” in defence procurement contracts and said there was a contract out to kill him. Continue reading
Polish prosecutor ‘shoots self after news conference’
A Polish military prosecutor has shot himself in the head after cutting short a news conference in his office, officials and media reports say.
Col Mikolaj Przybyl was defending a military investigation into media leaks related to the air crash that killed the Polish president in 2010. Continue reading
Slow Progress in Battle against Polish Car Thieves
Cross-border theft of cars and heavy machinery between Germany and Poland is a well-known problem. The common German assumption is that responsibility lies with its less-prosperous neighbor Poland, which is why a comment this week by the Polish ambassador to Germany was met with indignation. Continue reading
Kidnapped 9-year-old to stay in Poland
A Polish court has ruled that a girl taken by private investigator Krzysztof ‘Rambo’ Rutkowski from her Vestfold foster home will not be returned to Norway. Continue reading
Poland’s rightists want death penalty back
Polands biggest opposition party, Law and Justice (PiS), said Friday it would push for bringing back capital punishment.
‘There are no EU rules which forbid this,’ Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the chief of the right-wing party, said in Warsaw. Continue reading
Poland’s former intelligence chief arrested on corruption charges
A former head of a Polish intelligence agency and four other people have been arrested on suspicion of taking bribes during the privatization of state companies, local media reported Thursday. Continue reading
Polish authorities rule hooligans must uncover faces
Friday’s riots in Poland, which marred the country’s Independence Day celebrations, have been a major test for the country’s security forces ahead of Euro 2012 next summer.
Polish police say the majority of the 210 people arrested during marches that turned violent were football hooligans. Although almost half of those detained were foreigners, including 92 Germans, a Spaniard, a Hungarian and a Dane, local football fans are far from being warm and fuzzy. Continue reading
Warsaw Independence Day clashes see 200 arrests
Violent clashes have marred Independence Day in the Polish capital with at least 29 people taken to hospital and more than 200 detained by Friday night, nearly half of them Germans. Three police officers are reported to be seriously injured.
As the police tried to keep swelling nationalist and anti-fascist marches apart, the celebrations started to grow violent. Continue reading
Police smash gang traficking Poles to UK for benefits scam
Police have smashed a gang that trafficked more than 230 people to Britain in a sophisticated multi-million-pound benefit fraud.
The criminals, based in Poland, targeted down-and-outs and people with alcohol and mental health problems. Victims were brought to the UK – most to London – with the promise of work and tricked into signing papers to open bank accounts.
The gang then used their details to apply for more than £2 million of tax credits and other benefits. Police said trafficking people to claim benefits is a worrying new trend in organised crime. Normally, gangs do so for prostitution or domestic slavery. Continue reading
