Polish Easter 2017 road fatalities: 41 dead, 478 injured
During the Easter weekend, from Thursday to Monday, there were 380 accidents on the Polish roads, in which 41 people were killed and 478 were injured. The police detained 1,200 intoxicated drivers. In comparison, during the same period last year, there were 307...
First conviction in Poland for parental trolling
A father has been sentenced for placing a picture of his naked son on the internet. This is the first such court sentence in Poland for the so-called parental trolling, ie ridiculing a child in the internet. It was when Katarzyna was still following the social media...
Polish man tops a year of abusing his girlfriend by setting her on fire
A 35-year-old Gryfino resident (Zachodniopomorskie voivodship) has been arrested after using petrol to set fire to his girlfriend. Marcin S. faces five years of imprisonment. The details of the woman's nightmare were made public by the police. For many months the man...
7 years of Polish monthly Smoleńsk commemorations adding up to millions in police costs
MP Cezary Tomczyk has addressed the Police Chief Commander to obtain information on the number of police officers securing the monthly Smoleńsk commemorative celebrations and the estimated costs incurred by the police for this purpose. Since the plane crash of April...
New law in Poland to increase punishments for crimes against the vulnerable
President Andrzej Duda has signed an amendment to criminal law act that punishes criminals for serious crimes against children's life, health and freedom. The new law also introduces the obligation to report such offenses. For example: a person who has knowledge of a...
Polish govt commemorates Smoleńsk plane crash victims
On April 10, 2010, in the plane crash of Tu-154M near Smoleńsk all 96 passengers were killed, including Polish President Lech Kaczyński and his wife. The Polish delegation was on their way to join the celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the Katyń massacre. Today,...
Student driver arrested for taking driving exam drunk
Over one per mille of alcohol was in the breath of a driving course student who came to pass the driving exam at the Voivodship Road Traffic Centre in Szczecin on Monday. The 47-year-old student managed to complete the first task, but then the examiner noticed that he...
Ukrainians masquerading as Poles mount protest near border
Approximately 150 people were blocking the road between Lviv and the Polish border crossing in Rawa Ruska on Wednesday. "Stop the genocide of Poles" - their banners said. The head of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) of the Lviv region, Viktor Andreytshuk, says...
Opportunistic “hatter” thief swoops in to steal 4kg of gold from Polish jeweller
Almost like in an American movie. Nobody saw anything, there's only a recording from the surveillance camera from a jeweller's shop in Koszalin, from which four kilograms of gold disappeared yesterday. A thief entered the shop, took the jewellery, and went out...
First Polish ambassador in Kiribati
Polish Ambassador Zbigniew Gniatkowski has placed his diplomatic credentials in the hands of Kiribati president Taneti Maamau. "It is an honour and a privilege to be the first Polish ambassador" in Kiribati - Gniatkowski says. Gniatkowski is the ambassador of Poland,...
Polish opposition submits motion of no confidence for the govt
The Civic Platform (Platforma Obywatelska) have submitted a motion to the Polish Sejm for a constructive vote of no confidence for the government of Prime Minister Beata Szydło. Their candidate for the new Prime Minister is party leader Grzegorz Schetyna. PO wants the...
Poland may not sign Rome Declaration if desired content missing
There are four priorities that must be included in the Rome Declaration for it to make sense. There is an unwritten agreement that if there is no compromise until Friday about the text, there will be no document at all - said Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydło in the...