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Friday 15th March 2013
Issue 11 (211)
Family executed in Gdansk old town
18-month-old child
one of victims
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dansk police have described the
discovery of the bodies of three
members of a family including that
of a small child as the most brutal crime
they can remember having to deal with.
The bodies of a man, woman and
18-month-old child were discovered in an
apartment overlooking the main pedestrian
street in Gdansk, ul. Dluga. The man has
been named as Adam K., who TVN24
sources claim is one of a number of people
named in a case concerning the trading of
weapons being led by the Department for
Organized Crime and Corruption Appellate
Prosecutor’s Office in Gdansk.
Adam K. and his partner were shot
at point blank range while the young
child, according to unofficial information
reported by Gazeta Wyborcza, was killed
using the butt of a weapon. The absence
of a weapon at the scene seems to rule out
suicide and while robbery is also being
considered as a motive, no signs of a breakin have been found.
The family is believed to have died
on either Wednesday night or Thursday
morning. A post-mortem was taking place
on Friday and police have released very
limited information regarding the incident.
Joanna Kowalik-Kosinska, a spokesperson
for the Regional Police Headquarters in
Gdansk told reporters that the Regional
Police in Gdansk are trying to discover why the family was so brutally killed
Commander has formed a special group
of police to investigate and that the case is
being led by the District Prosecutors Office
in Gdansk.
Experienced officers told reporters that this
is one of the most shocking crimes they have
ever been faced with and that the murder of
a small baby in such a way is unusual in even
the most vicious gangland feuds.
Officials have denied reports this could
be a gangland killing following media
reports that Adam K. was known to police.
“So far we do not have such information,”
Renata Klonowska, head of the District
Prosecutor’s Office in Gdansk-Downtown,
told reporters. “It was a normal family.”
The family are reported to have rented the
apartment on ul. Dluga for several years
and Adam K. worked as an antique dealer
trading mostly weapons.
As NPE went to press, TVN24 was
reporting that the case has now been taken
over by the Appellate Prosecutor’s Office
in Gdansk. Officers have launched phone
numbers for any information - 0800 677
777 or 58 321 59 30.
NATIONALp.5 REGIONALp.8 in your pocketp.11
Merkel’s Polish roots revealed
Is that a Phillips head?
Something For The Weekend
A new book ‘Angela Merkel – The Chancellor and her World’, which is due to be
published in Germany this month, has revealed that the German leader would have
had the maiden name Kazmierczak had
her paternal grandfather not changed the
family name to Kasner in the 1930s.
Bialystok’s University Hospital removed
a Phillips screwdriver that became embedded 5cm deep in a 25-year-old man’s head.
The spike went in right between the man’s
eyes and very fortunately missed any areas
or nerves regulating vital functions, missing one eye by only a centimetre.
This weekend Kraków marks the 70th
anniversary of the liquidation of the
Podgórze Ghetto. Events commemorating
this important anniversary will be taking place throughout the weekend and we
have those and some tips on places to visit
for you.
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EDITORIAL
The New Poland Express I Friday 15th March 2013 I www.nwe.pl
Contents
News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Regional news. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Business. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
What’s on . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Sport. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
Classifieds. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
From the editor
Quotes of the week
This week in history
his week was an
extremely tough
one when it came
to picking articles as
every bloody story in
the Polish press seemed
to be about some bloke
from Argentina. Great news if you’re interested in the bible and all that carry on - excruciatingly dull if you’re not.
While we’ve tried to veer away from
all of this (there’s been enough in the
international press without us boring you
with it too), there have been a few choice
comments from various Poles in the know
that are worth looking at.
Father
Tadeusz
Isakowicz-Zaleski
has already claimed the new Pope has
his work cut out given that issues such
as “Paedophilia, homosexuality and
violations of celibacy” are going to be
major challenges for him.
Speaking with what seems to be just a
hint of jealousy, he added that he “doesn’t
envy him” and that “Francis might be the
best pastor in the world but if he is not
able to cope with the Curia then little will
change in the long run”.
Encouraging words indeed and I’m
sure new boy Francis will be the first to
admit that there’s nothing like receiving
a good bit of support from your foreign
colleagues.
Perhaps slightly more worrying was
Father Isakowicz-Zaleski’s claims that
such serious issues are “not just one of the
problems at the moment, but perhaps the
largest problem that needs addressing”.
On a brighter note, we’ve tried to mix
it up as usual with a few lighter topics,
including one on page five where it is
revealed that the leader of Poland’s
traditional foe, Germany, is in fact two
quarters Polish. How the nationalists will
deal with Chancellor Merkel being a large
part Polish interests us and hopefully this
news might go some way to proving to
certain groups that we more alike than we
would like to admit.
“Celibacy is the cause of so many
paedophile scandals within the church. The
Pope needs to sort this out.” Pope Francis I
has his work cut out according to Historian
of Christian Philosophy Kamil Sipowicz
this week.
1717 (16.03) - A fire in the Jewish quarter
of Poznan breaks out and spreads through
most of the city. The alleged failure of Jews
to allow fire fighters to carry out their
duties sparked anti-Semitic feelings.
T
“What can I say? If Poles had more
good sex then they may be more gentler
towards other people.” Prof. Monika
Platek, a criminologist from Warsaw Uni,
discussing why Poles are so judgmental of
others.
“A Merkel asked, how to correctly
pronounce Kaźmierczak. The second
attempt was successful ” PM Donald Tusk
tweets that Angela Merkel is trying to learn
how to pronounce her ancestral surname.
Re: Lech Walesa criticises minorities
Dear Sir,
Your information is inaccurate. President
L.Walesa did not criticize minorities (by the
way, is it illegal to criticize anybody, including
a minority, in a democracy?). President
L.Walesa simply recalled the fundamental
and obvious truth, that democracy is about
majority rule, not about the minority rule.
Communists were also a minority…..
Regards,
Dr Józef Toczek
Re: Female victims of violence
This problem cannot be just exclusively
in Poland but must be in every country all
around the world. I know there are help
centers set up to help people but more must be
done to bring attention to this sad problem.
There is no point pretending this problem is
only happening in Poland but it’s everywhere
and more should be done to stop it. How can
it still go on? It needs to be stopped and more
must be done to stop it.
Karen - London, UK
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1970 (20.03) - The University of Gdansk
is established. Formed by merging
Sopot’s Higher School or Economics
and the Gdansk College of Education,
the university now accommodates an
estimated 33,000 students.
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1942 (16.03) - Liquidation of the Lublin
ghetto begins. An estimated 34,000 Jews
(and a number of Roma) were sent to
the ghetto upon its creation in March
1941. Only an estimated 230 Lublin Jews
survived German occupation.
Budka Suflera’s Krzysztof Cugowski is
something of a big name in Poland and
luckily his two sons have inherited his
talent and love of music.
If you don’t believe us, then we’ve got a
double invitation to see Piotr and Wojtek
Cugowsci perform an acoustic performance in Krakow’s Hard Rock Cafe on
March 20.
The gig is sure to be a fine one and in order to bag the tickets, simply tell us on
which street the venue is located.
Jason in Poznan was our winner last
week, so congrats to him and his
lucky lady who will also enjoy the
show. Send your answers this week to:
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NEWS
Cop killed
on duty
A
policeman was fatally shot in the
head this week whilst trying to arrest a driver in the west of Poland.
According to reports in Gazeta
Wyborcza, the officer had initially
attempted to stop a car with German
number plates for inspection in
Swiebodzin, however when the driver tried
to flee, he then gave chase in a pursuit that
reportedly lasted for 10-minutes.
After finally approaching the car on foot,
a struggle took place, during which the
officer was shot in the head and killed.
While the policeman’s name has not yet
been released, the paper states he was a
young officer with 12 years experience and
leaves behind a wife and two children aged
5 and 12.
“He was attempting to stop the car at the
time. Whether the officer drew his gun after
sensing the danger or whether the man
snatched it from him, we do not yet know,”
said Mariusz Sokolowski, a spokesman for
the National Police Headquarters. “What
we do know is that the man [known only
as Mariusz R. due to legal reasons] was
already wanted in connection with theft
and breaking into cars.”
“This whole thing is a tragedy for both
the deceased’s family and police officers
everywhere,” he added.
The driver is currently in police custody.
PL.2012 bosses bonus attacked
T
he President and Vice-President
of the company set up to organise
the Euro 2012 Football Championships have come under attack this week
for receiving bonuses totalling over PLN
2.5 mln. The bonuses formed part of the
employment contracts both men signed in
July 2008 which were signed by the then
Chairman of the PL.2012 Management
Board, Mr Adam Giersz, who later went
onto to become Minister of Sport.
The amounts were revealed last year when
the contracts of the two men became public
but the sums due were only paid this week.
Politicians from both the left and the right
of the political spectrum are outraged.
The Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) wants
the payments and the contracts agreed to be
examined by the Prosecutor General Andrzej
Seremet to see whether this was against the
best interests of the company. They want him
to check whether Mr Giersz was induced to
include the payments in the contract.
PL.2012 press spokesperson Mikołaj
Piotrowski told reporters that the
payments were an agreed part of the terms
of the contract the two men had signed and
nothing untoward had taken place.
This explanation was not sufficient for
outraged parliamentarians. “This is a
scandal and it cannot even be covered by
the conclave” said SLD member Dariusz
Joński referring to the news this week
being pre-occupied with the selection of a
new pope.
Law and Justice (PiS) MP Marcin
Mastalerek, who is a member of the Sejm
Commission on Sport, urged both men to
donate their bonuses to charity. “Mr Herra
and Mr Bogucki each received PLN 1.3 mln.
This is 30 times more than the Speaker of
the Sejm received” (referring to the recent
outrage at the bonuses paid to speakers of
the Sejm which resulted in Wanda Nowicka
being dismissed from Palikot Movement).
The MP followed his demand up by sending
PL.2012 a list of charitable organisations
on Wednesday “Mr Herra and Mr Bogucki
have a very large choice” he said.
Many MPs referred to the ‘Chimney
Law’ (Ustawa Kominowa) which limits the
amount of money bosses of a nationally
owned company can earn to up to six times
the average salary in the business sector. In
June 2012 Dziennik.pl calculated this figure
to be in the region of PLN 22,000 a month.
United Poland (SP) submitted a proposal
to the Sejm that a new law be brought in
applying 99 percent tax to the bonuses earned
by the bosses of PL.2012. Spokesman Patryk
Jaki explained this tax would cover all bosses
of nationally owned companies if they avoid
the ‘Chimney Law’ by agreeing to substantial
bonuses in addition to their salaries. In the
cases of Mr. Herra and Mr Bogucki who were
both earning around PLN 26,000 per month,
the bonus payments equate to approximately
an additional 100 percent of the money
earned during the four years since their
contracts were signed in 2008.
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NEWS
Merkel’s Polish roots revealed Growing help for
A
new book ‘Angela Merkel – The
Chancellor and her World’, which is
due to be published in Germany this
month, has revealed that the German leader
would have had the maiden name Kazmierczak had her paternal grandfather not changed
the family name to Kasner in the 1930s.
Written by the head of Sueddeutsche
Zeitung foreign desk Stefan Kornelius, the
book looks at Mrs Merkel’s life and her
ancestry and reveals details of her paternal
family for the first time. Mr Kornelius
discovered that while Mrs Merkel had
been born Kasner, her father had not and
investigations revealed that he had actually
been born Horst Kazmierczak. Further
investigation took the writer to Poznan
(formerly the German city of Posen) where
Horst’s father Ludwig was born.
Records there showed that Ludwig
was born illegitimately in 1896, the
son of Anna Kazmierczak and Ludwig
Wojciechowski. He was given his mother’s
surname, keeping this even when she later
married Ludwig Rychlicki who between
them brought Ludwig up.
With Poznan becoming part of the
newly formed Polish state after WWI,
Ludwig moved to Berlin where he became
a policeman, married and had a son Horst
in 1926. In 1930 Ludwig took the decision
to change the family name to Kasner, and
Horst Kazmierczak became Horst Kasner.
This new revelation is not the first to
identify Polish roots in Mrs. Merkel’s
family tree which shows both sides of
her family having lived in lands ceded
to Poland during the 20th century. Her
mother Herlinde was born Herlinde
Jentzsch, the daughter of a Polish father and
German mother in the Free City of Danzig
in 1928. The family lived, as had previous
generations of Mrs Merkel’s maternal
grandmother, in the East Prussian town of
Elbing (now Polish Elblag) until 1936 when
the family moved to Hamburg. Herlinde
Jentzsch met and married Horst Kasner
there after WWII and Angela was their
first child and born in 1954.
Mrs Merkel has previously acknowledged
that she was aware of the Polish roots in
the Elblag branch of her family tree once
telling De Zeit in an interview, “I have
Polish roots through my grandfather.
When I’m in a melancholy mood, I think
to myself that it’s the Slavic spirit in me.”
The Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk
enjoys a very good relationship with Mrs
Merkel with some suggesting this is due
to their similar family backgrounds. Mr
Tusk’s roots are firmly in Gdansk/Danzig
and he is a fluent German speaker which
has been key to him developing a close
relationship with Mrs Merkel. In 2005,
when Mr Tusk was running for president,
it was revealed that his grandfather had
been a Wehrmacht conscript in WWII
and opposition parties have tried to make
political gain using Mr. Tusk’s German/
Kashubian heritage in the past.
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penis problems
D
octors in Zabrze have successfully
performed the first prosthetic penis operation ever to take place in
Poland.
The operation was performed on a
55-year-old man with erectile dysfunction
by a team of specialists from the University
of Silesia’s Department of Urology and led
by Prof. Andrzej Paradysz.
“The procedure consists of abdomen
cavity implants, a pump implanted into
the scrotum and dual cylinders implanted
into the corpus cavernosum area of the
penis. These all help the patient feel more
intimate physiological sensations,” says
Prof. Paradysz.
Erectile dysfunction, where the male is
unable to maintain an erection, is a more
common problem than many think and
it’s estimated that it affects around half of
men aged 40-70 - and around 10 percent of
Polish men in total.
Dr. Marcin Zyczkowski, one of those
involved in the operation, explained to
TVN that the patient has to press the pump
before they want intercourse in order to
help get an erection and simply release the
pump when they are ready to stop.
“It will take about a week for everything
to heal and the patient will be able to begin
sexual intercourse again in six week’s
time,” adds Prof. Paradysz.
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NEWS
IN BRIEF
False fag factory
Officers from the Central Bureau of Investigation
(CBS) arrested 11 people - including eight
Macedonians - near Lodz this week in connection
with an illegal cigarette factory.
According to TVN, two tons of tobacco, 165,000
cigarettes and various and filters and containers
featuring the ‘Marlboro’ logo were seized during
the sting in the small village of Cesarka.
“The head behind the operation is a 36-year-old
Lubuskie resident who employed the detainees,”
says police spokesperson Joanna Kacka. It is
estimated that the Ministry of Duty has lost over
PLN 1 mln due to the factory.
New laws for names
The government is preparing amendments to
the law which will allow parents more freedom
when naming their children. According to
Rzeczpospolita, the changes will enable babies to
be given unisex names and names with diminutive
forms - something which is currently forbidden.
Malgorzata Piotrak, Director of the Department
of Civil Affairs, says one of the reasons for such
changes is the growing number of Poles getting
married to foreign citizens.
WWII ammo uncovered
More than 120 artillery shells dating to WWII have
been found buried in the western town of Trzciel.
Sappers were called to the scene after a resident
discovered the 75mm shells while carrying out
work in his garden on Monday.
“We found over 120 and are currently transporting
them to a site where they will be destroyed,”
Grzegorz Kluk, Patrol Commander for the 5th
Engineer Battalion in Krosno Odrzanskie, told TVN.
Hungry children numbers grow
T
he Ministry of Labour and Social
Policy has promised that more
reports and research will be conducted after recent finding that 800,000
children in Poland are suffering from malnutrition.
The figures, found in a recent study
carried out by the ministry’s Polish
Foundation to Help Children (Macius),
made the headlines this week and have
drawn in a wave of criticism and concern
from public figures and politicians
alike.
“In the very near future, we will be
publish a new report on the malnutrition
of children based on these findings,” the
Minister of Labour and Social Policy
Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz told Gazeta
Wyborcza.
“We have decided to direct all questions
to the staff of welfare facilities and social
welfare centres. There are 2,400 in total
around the country,” he added.
The Minister has given assurance
there will be research into the number
of families living in poverty and also
stated there may be an increase with
regards to the amount of welfare
available to those who need it most.
“Last year we raised this by about PLN
105 - PLN 465 per person per family,”
he stated.
However, Mr Kosiniak-Kamysz also
expressed fears that the study may not be
100 percent reliable.
“I do not know what questions were asked
here, but in my opinion the choices were
wrong. This test is completely unreliable. If
we are classing all children from birth up to
the age of 18 then we are looking at around
7,200,000 kids. Ten percent of this - which is
what the study claims - is not 800,000.”
Janina Ochojska, a spokeswoman for the
Polish Humanitarian Action (PAH), told
the newspaper that one of the problems
with such promises is that it is extremely
difficult to pinpoint exactly where the
problems need to be addressed.
She also claimed that hunger is not
an major issue in Poland, but merely
something with which the government
uses as a means to score points. “There is
no hunger in Poland. It annoys me where
I hear politicians going on about children
going hungry. It’s just a tool they use when
they are trying to get people on their side.”
“The government should take on the
financing of school meals, because we
need to ensure that every child eats a twocourse meal there. This system is far safer
because when extra money is handed out
to parents, we can not be sure exactly
where this money is going and whether or
not it will spent on the child or not.”
The numbers have been questioned since
Gazeta Wyborcza wrote two years ago
that a similar study conducted by PAH
found that the number of malnourished
children living in Poland was estimated to
be between 120-130,000.
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Without rhyme or region
Y
ou don’t have
to spend much
time in Poland
to see how homogeneous it is. No matter where you go, the
people are basically
white, European, Catholic. For people used
to more cosmopolitan societies this sweeping monoculture is rather strange. A similar uniformity has also been apparent, till
now, in terms of names.
Monikas and Malgorzatas abound,
Krzysztofs and Slawomirs are legion,
Mazowieckie
Candid camera
M
okotow police
this week released pictures of men
caught on CCTV
in the act of stealing CCTV cameras.
In one raid the men
made off with eight
cameras at an estimated value of PLN 8,000.
The men stroll into tower blocks, faces
uncovered, and proceed to dismantle the
cameras before making off. Police believe
the men may be responsible for a spate of
similar thefts in the area.
Tubes connect
T
he tunnel boring machine (TBM)
‘Anna’ made contact with Warsaw’s
first underground line at around noon this
Wednesday, forming a spur between the
new and old metros. There’s just one wall
leavened only by the occasional Honorata
or Bozydar.
So far, the rules governing the
registering of names in Poland have
been extraordinarily restrictive. Even
diminutive forms have been off limits - no
Dannys or Bettys permitted.
What’s more, names which made it
difficult to distinguish the child’s sex,
and tricky to comply with the language’s
gender rules, were also banned.
Now that could all be about to change.
Chilled out government officials are
considering relaxing those rules, in part
due to the increasing number of mixed
marriages taking place here.
Not everyone is happy, though. Tomasz
Brzozak, head of the Association of
Registrar Officials, is upset at losing his
right to needlessly boss people around
and commented, “Names are often chosen
under the influence of strong emotion and
an impulsive desire to sparkle, by giving
the child some dubious originality. But
in the long term it can be harmful to the
child.” Ah, the simple pleasures of smug
paternalism.
That said, being a Graham here isn’t easy.
I’ve been rechristened Brian, Grajan and
once even “Panie Gertrudzie” (but she was
mad). Regardless, variety is the spice of life,
and I’m a man for all seasoning.
remaining for it to bore through to complete the link that will enable trains from
the second line to make their way home to
the existing Kabaty depot.
For the time being, though, work on that
connection can wait, while workers remove
the TBM through a shaft, returning it to
the main tunnel so it can continue drilling
in the direction of Powisle.
thought he was joking, but he wasn’t. There
was a low wall on one side of me and I
leaned against that.”
The wait became a battle of endurance.
What’s worse, she wasn’t allowed to leave
the hospital. “She was told that if she left
the hospital grounds, it meant she was
resigning her place,” commented the
woman’s grandson.
In the early hours of Tuesday morning
the woman was offered a bed in another
hospital where she says conditions are
vastly superior.
Hospital director Balicki laid the
blame for the incident squarely on the
Mazowieckie Regional Governor. Last
November the governor allowed 30 beds
from the under-occupied psychiatric ward
to be used by medical patients, but refused
to extend that permission in January.
“Maybe if he spent a few hours sat in a
hospital emergency ward he’d understand
the situation better,” commented Balicki
archly.
Waiting in pain
A
row broke out this week after it
emerged that an elderly woman was
forced to wait 13 hours in a corridor before
finally being admitted to the surgical ward.
The hospital’s director (and a former Health
Minister) Marek Balicki claimed, “It’s the
fault of the system, not the hospital.”
Ewa Flatau told reporters from TVN, “I
arrived at the hospital at 9am on Monday.
The nightmare started when the doctor
said they didn’t have any beds free in the
ward and I’d have to wait for admission on
a little chair. I looked at the doctor, and I
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REGIONAL NEWS
Malopolskie
Podlaskie
Doctor, inspect thyself!
Is that a Phillips head?
Krakow hospital is in hot
water after it ejected
representatives from
the National Health
Fund (NFZ) making
an
unannounced
visit last Friday. An
attorney acting for the legal owner of the
Sw. Rafal hospital on ul. Bochenka arrived
during the visit and ejected them, first seizing all their notes and forcing them to delete all the photos they had taken.
“We will not tolerate this kind of
behaviour. We will impose the legal
sanctions against them as outlined in the
legislation,” commented Anna Pachciarz
for the NFZ. “How are we to look after the
interests of patients with such reprehensible
behaviour on the part of the units’ staff?”
Pachciarz asked.
Krakow NFZ is now promising vigorous
action against the Multimedis company
which owns the hospital. “I’ve ordered
a detailed inspection of the company’s
activities. In particular, we shall be looking
at medical documentation from the last
few years,” said Pachciarz.
Andrzej Kulig, director of Krakow’s
University Hospital told Gazeta Krakow,
“There’s not a day goes by when we don’t
get two, or four patients sent to us from that
hospital’s A&E department. It’s generally
those patients who you can tell in advance
they’re going to be expensive to treat.”
ialystok’s University Hospital
removed a Phillips
screwdriver
that
became
embedded 5cm deep in a
25-year-old man’s
head. The spike went
in right between the man’s eyes and very
fortunately missed any areas or nerves regulating vital functions, missing one eye by
only a centimetre. He is unable to remember exactly how the accident happened, but
third parties have been excluded.
The man was apparently working on
his home in Lapy when he slipped and
fell. “When he came to he felt a pain in
his hand. He stood up, walked to his car
and only then noticed he had a foreign
body sticking out of his head,” explained
neurologist Jan Kochanowicz.
The man will now remain under close
medical supervision for the next six
months as any number of complications
could set in. Surgeons at Bialystok hospital
told reporters that such incidents are not as
rare as one might think.
“We had one patient who visited us on
many occasions, who liked to hammer a nail
into his head whenever he’s in police custody.
We removed it each time, but he eventually
died when the nail he used one time was
rusty,” said Katarzyna Malinowska-Olczyk,
press officer for the hospital.
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B
Cop, but no stop
B
ialystok police watched with astonishment this Monday as a woman drove
past them, failed to stop at a pedestrian
crossing and ran right into another woman
walking across it. The 55-year-old victim
was able to stand up and walk away, while
the driver was escorted away by police and
has had her license removed pending a
court hearing.
You’re drunk, you’re drunk!
L
ast Monday evening, Chrzanow police
stopped a woman driving a Skoda after
she was found to have been drinking. Her
husband arrived in his Mercedes to pick
her up, but officers became suspicious and
breathalysed him, too. He was also drunk.
“When officers stopped the woman, it
was immediately apparent that she was
under the influence,” Dariusz Nowak, for
Malopolskie police told reporters. What’s
worse, the woman was not in possession of
a driving license as it had been taken from
her a few weeks earlier for drunk driving.
In such situations it’s normal for the
person to call a family member to collect
the car, so she called her husband. “About
10 minutes later a Mercedes pulled up
alongside the patrol car. The woman’s
husband got out and again, it was
immediately obvious he was drunk. He
had 0.08% alcohol in his blood,” continued
Nowak. “This caused a bit of a problem
because we now had two cars to tow away,
and not one,” he added.
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REGIONAL NEWS
Dolnoslaskie
Wielkopolskie
Philharmonic arrest
Toad on the road
puzzling double
murder was uncovered last Friday
in the Filharmonia
Dolonoslaska in Jelenia Gora, when the
bodies of a security
guard and a young harpist were found. Police moved quickly to arrest a suspect who
was remanded in custody for three months
the very next day.
The alarm was raised when staff were
unable to get into the building on Friday
morning, leading them to call the fire
service. Fire officers discovered the body
of the 60-year-old security guard lying in
pools of blood and called in police.
While searching the building police then
found the body of a 27-year-old harpist
from Warsaw who was guesting with the
orchestra and staying for a few days in
premises in the orchestra building.
Police immediately identified a suspect,
but said nothing to media, enabling them to
arrest 29-year-old Michal M. later the same
day. “He was arrested on a train in Jaworzno
heading to Katowice. He was taken completely
by surprise and didn’t put up resistance,”
superintendent Bogumil Kotowski of Jelenia
Gora police told reporters.
“The man has formally admitted the
murder of the woman, but his story is highly
selective. In many places he’s claiming loss
of memory. While his statements regarding
the security guard are coherent, regarding
the woman there are some things he denies
or can’t remember,” explained Violetta
Niziolek for the regional prosecutors.
For the time being, though, no clear
motive is being given for the double
killing. “A visual examination of the
bodies suggests that the woman dies from
strangulation, whereas the man died from
head wounds and choked on his own
blood,” explained a prosecutor.
CCTV footage from the building has
been seized and is being analysed. If found
guilty, the man faces from eight years to
life imprisonment.
ature
lovers
in Poznan are
organising an operation to save over a
thousand frogs when
they attempt to migrate across the busy
ulica Lutycka in order to reach the amphibian heaven of Rusalka lake, where they
will settle down to an orgy of froggy sex
and spawn.
Representatives of the Stowarzyszenie
Trzaska will be waiting as soon as the mass
movement of the creatures begins, to stop
them from meeting a squishy death under car
tyres. “If we don’t help them, there’ll be a mass
slaughter of endangered species which are our
friends when it comes to dealing with pests,”
explained Mikolaj Kaczmarski of Trzaska.
“We caught the most reptiles in 2011 in the whole of spring and autumn, there
A
Fags in the garage
C
ustoms officers together with police
seized 1.7 tons of contraband cigarettes from a Wroclaw man’s garage this
week. Officers pounced when the man
went to the lock up to move the goods.
“The amount of tax revenues lost from
this quantity of tobacco is initially being
estimated at over PLN 1.3 mln,” Kamil
Rynkiewicz of Dolnoslaskie police told
reporters.
N
were more than 2,000 individuals. Each
one was identified and measured before
being released,” Kaczmarski continued.
The biggest problem at the moment is
establishing precisely when the migration
will start. “Good question. We’ve had snow
and the temperature is still in the minus.
We have to wait until spring weather
returns and temperatures rise above two
degrees.”
Fire service scrambled
T
wenty three fire tenders were called
to deal with a fire that broke out in a
warehouse full of eggs last weekend in the
town of Janikowo. Powerful flames could
be seen reaching high into the sky.
“We evacuated six people. No one was
hurt. The fire is now under control. We
were able to locate the centre of the blaze
and extinguish it, so as a result only about
150m2 of the warehouse was damaged.
We still don’t know the cause,” Michal
Kucierski, for Poznan fire service, told
reporters.
10
BUSINESS
Belka backs interest rate cuts
M
arek Belka, President of the National Bank of Poland (NBP),
said this week that he was behind the decision to cut interest rates by 50
basic points.
“The new inflation levels show that it’s a
safe time to cut interest rates ... it’s merely
an indication that our strategy is flexible
and not hectic,” he said in an interview
with obserwatorfinansowy.pl.
“It’s quite normal that the Monetary
Policy Council is under pressure from
the government to loosen such terms
rather than exacerbate them. The
Council and the NBP are guardians of
keeping the economy in a stable state.
The government however is responsible
for the growth and will always prefer to
have easier options, even at the expense
of inflation. But this is not the long-term
objective,” he stated.
“Analysts and economists at major
banks here have backed the decision
while some foreign banks have
expressed disapproval. Sure, some
banks have suffered losses ... but the
Council consists of 10 people ... and I, as
head, have conveyed a balanced view [to
this decision]. Unfortunately we all have
to live with it.”
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Currency
Canadian Dollar
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Euro
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1 CAD
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4,8260
1 RUB
0,1038
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0,4977
1 CHF
3,3770
1 USD
3,1868
BUSINESS IN BRIEF
Small firms must have a kasa
New laws came in on March 1 lowering the turnover threshold for
which businesses are obliged to have a cash register to 20,000 PLN
annually.
But reports this week said many businesses have not bought
cash registers in time as all of the cheaper models have been
snapped up meaning often only models costing up to 4,000 PLN
are available.
However people who have yet to buy a cash register may not
necessarily face a fine of between 600 and 3,000 PLN. “If they
cannot buy the cash register, they simply cannot meet this
obligation and it is possible to waive the punishment. All the
circumstances must be taken into account and the heads of tax
Issue 15 (66)
Country comes together
to mourn victims
“Since the fourth quarter of 2011, the
eurozone has been in recession which has
contributed to debt problems and a loss of
competitiveness in certain nations within
it,” states the document.
“Slowdown abroad combined with the
gradual extinction of certain factors
which were helping to support the first
quarter have played a large part in
this.”
But despite the predicted slowdown of
outside investments following the end of
the 2007-2013 EU funds, the document
states that 2014 should see Poland’s GDP
begin to accelerate once again.
IN NUMBERS
14.4%
Current unemployment rate in Poland, according
to the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy.
10 mln
The number of Poles that will have digital TV come
the end of March.
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offices are familiar with the situation” the Ministry of Finance’sM
Wieslawa Drozdz said.
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Top time for tourism
CM
An estimated 14.8 mln tourists made their way to Poland last year
spending approximately PLN 11.7 bln, states data put out by
MY
eTravel.
According to Kinga Fromlewicz, a spokeswoman for the site, this
CY
can be partly put down to the Euro 2012 tournament which helped
the country draw in its highest tourist count in five years.
CMY
The number looks set to rise predicts the Institute of Tourism, which
has suggested that by 2017, as many as 16 mln tourists will visit
K
each year.
I
t took five seconds to transform Poland from a country bustling with
confidence into one wracked with
grief on a scale not seen since the Second
World War.
At some point on a nondescript Saturday
morning on April 10, the aircraft carrying
the president, his wife and 94 others
clipped a tree with its left wing as it
approached Smolensk airport in western
Russia. Five seconds later, now devoid of
one wing, it barrel rolled anti-clockwise,
before slamming roof first into the ground.
As news of the accident broke in Poland,
and one by one television channels
interrupted their regular services, news
readers struggled to contain their emotions
as they realised the devastating blow the
Smolensk disaster had dealt the country.
Along with President Kaczynski, and
Maria his wife, the casualty list read like a
who’s who of the Polish elite.
The head of the national bank, the
chief of the armed forces, the heads of the
navy and air force, two ministers, leading
politicians and dozens of others. Many
household names in Poland; now all dead.
The irony that the Tupolev Tu-154
crashed at it was carrying a delegation
to mark the 70th-anniversary of the
Katyn massacre, when Stalin’s henchman
slaughtered Poland’s best, was not lost.
NATIONAL
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T
he country’s pace of economic
growth is expected to be further reduced to 1.3 percent this year, claim
statistics published by the National Bank
of Poland (NBP).
The statistics, put out by the Institute of
Economics (IE) and taking into account
data from the Central Statistical Office
(GUS), show that 2012 saw growth decline
to 2.0 percent from 4.3 percent the year
previous.
The main reason being touted for such a
decline since 2011 has been put down to
“unfavourable external conditions connected
to the Polish economy”, states GUS.
Friday 16th April 2010
Poland hit by second Katyn tragedy
Warsaw’s Presidential Palace has become the focal point of the nation’s grief
“The Soviets killed Polish elites in Katyn
70 years ago. Today, the Polish elite died
there while getting ready to pay homage to
the Poles killed there,” said Lech Walesa.
Aleksander
Kwasniewski,
another
former president, described Katyn as a
“cursed place, and of horrible symbolism”.
As Poles absorbed what Donald Tusk
called the “most tragic event in Poland’s
post-war history” thousands began to
make their way to the presidential palace
in central Warsaw, which was to become
the focal point of national mourning.
p.4 REGIONAL
A small patch of flowers and candles
left by mourners expanded and grew,
carpeting the pavement and the road in
a tribute to those who had died. Political
differences vanquished by grief, thousands
upon thousands of people made their way
to the palace to pay their respects in quiet
dignity.
The outpouring of sympathy for the
victims spoke volumes for the shock
and sadness that had touched Poles; it
also spoke volumes for the decency of
Poland.
p.7 BUSINESS
p.9
Don’t blame pilot
Two frozen minutes
NBP in turmoil
The parents of the pilot in charge of flying
the presidential plane have begged the world
not to blame their son for the crash.
Captain Arkadiusz Protasiuka was the
man responsible for landing the Polish
Air Force Tu-154M safely in Russia on
Saturday 10th April, but, for reason still
unknown, he was unable to successfully
carry out his task.
At noon on Sunday across the nation two
minutes silence was observed in memory
of the people that died in the air crash in
Smolensk. The silence was then pierced by
the claxons and sirens of local authority
warning systems and police vehicles. To
this mournful orchestra of wails, the Polish nation stood to attention and reflected
on their loss in the forests near Katyn.
The tragic death of the head of the
National Bank of Poland Slawomir
Skrzypek in Saturday’s plane crash leaves
questions open about who will replace
him, and how his loss will affect monetary
policy and other issues.
The succession issue is a major one, since
both the parliament and the president
must make the choice jointly.
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11
ENTERTAINMENT
SOMETHING FOR THE WEEKEND from In Your Pocket
T
his weekend Kraków marks the 70th
anniversary of the liquidation of
the Podgórze Ghetto, a topic which
In Your Pocket has devoted a lot of copy to
in the last several months. Read our recent
features on The Jewish Ghetto and Płaszów
Former Concentration Camp for the full
story of the fate of Kraków’s pre-war Jewish population, as well as coverage of what
traces remain from this tragic chapter of the
city’s wartime history.
Events commemorating this important
anniversary will be taking place on Plac
Bohaterów Getta on Saturday evening,
and all day Sunday. The Pharmacy Under
the Eagle museum (Pl. Bohaterów Getta
18), which has been closed for half a year,
will reopen at 20:00 on Saturday with a
new permanent exhibit portraying life
in the Kraków Ghetto, based largely on
Tadeusz Pankiewicz’s famous book The
Cracow Ghetto Pharmacy. An official
opening, followed by a short concert
and multimedia presentation will take
place from 19:00 – 20:00, after which the
museum will be free for visitors until
24:00. Schindler’s Factory (ul. Lipowa 4)
will also be open until 24:00 Saturday
(last entry at 22:30 however).
On Sunday the Eagle Pharmacy will
again be free all day from 9:00-20:00. A
March of Memory will set off from in front
of the museum at 12:00, tracing the path of
the ghetto inhabitants to their internment
(and in most cases deaths) in Płaszów. A
bus will bring participants back to Plac
Bohaterów Getta , departing at 13:45.
The former ghetto in Podgórze has
been an area of increasing development
in Kraków lately, and ZaKładka - a new
restaurant on the other side of the Father
Bernatek bridge – has been the source
of much well-deserved buzz. If you find
intend to spend any time in the area
this weekend, make a reservation at this
fantastic new bistro. Another exciting
recent opening in town is that of Café
Tektura on ul. Krupnicza, which has
pretty much confirmed itself as Kraków’s
coolest street. Check out IYP’s reviews
of both establishments below and visit
follow the links to our website to leave
your own comments.
ZaKładka – Food & Wine
(ul. Józefińska 2)
Located in a beautifully restored
tenement just over the Bernadka
footbridge in Podgórze, this thoroughly
classy and professional French-inspired
bistro strikes a perfect balance of modern
elegance, exciting upscale cuisine
and below market prices to make it
outrageously popular. Stud chef Rafał
Targosz’s menu includes octopus, oxtail,
snails, mussels, chicken liver mousse,
lamb tripe meatballs, veal tongue and
other exotic delicacies (as well as savoury
sandwiches and less daring dishes)
at absolutely pedestrian prices when
compared to the skill of preparation
and style of presentation. A perfect
date destination, from the moment you
step inside seemingly everything about
Zakładka - from the sharp black and
white interior to the delicious food and
excellent wine list (the owner even has his
own vineyard) - becomes an aphrodisiac;
make a reservation now.
Tektura (ul. Krupnicza 7)
Looking like it could have been
transplanted from Green Point in Brooklyn,
Tektura once and for all confirms ul.
Krupnicza is the Old Town’s coolest street,
while giving the nearby Karma a challenge
for the crown of Kraków’s best cup of
coffee. A point of pride for the baristas, in
addition to being espresso experts, the staff
also operate alternative AeroPress and
Chemex coffeemakers and are up for any
kind of coffee challenge you can give them
- with amazing results. There’s an entire
shelf of enticing microbrews, a cocktail
list and full range of fresh sandwiches,
breakfasts and sweet baked goods to boot.
Sporting a hip, urban industrial chic
interior of unfinished brick and concrete,
with an eco-angle accomplished by stools
made from coiled recycled cardboard,
Tektura also provides plenty of outlets to
laptoppers, reliable wifi, boardgames and
basically everything you could ever ask
from a cafe/bar. We hope the competition
is taking notes.
In cooperation with In Your Pocket city guides
12
ENTERTAINMENT
Warsaw/Krakow/Katowice
Krakow
Warsaw
19.03 Tuesday
Aleksander Pustovalov Army Choir
Capitol Theatre, ul. Marszałkowska 115, tel.
(+48) 61 646 52 60
During its heyday,
the Red Army Choir
won countless medals, honours and
prestige as it toured
the world under the
direction of Alexander Pustovalov,
who rose to the
rank of colonel just
by showing off the superior pipes of the Soviet
boys. After the break up of the USSR, Pustovalov
continued his work as if it never did, and his entourage of about 60 singers, soloists, symphony
musicians and more, dressed in full military
pleats and epaulettes continue to perform their
nostalgic mix of marches, Russian and Ukrainian
national songs and folk ballads. Like nothing
you’ve ever seen, we’re quite certain.QConcert
starts at 19:00 Tickets 130zł. Available at www.
ticketpro.pl and Empik, ul. Złota 59, (Open 10:00
- 22:00, Sun 10:00 - 20:00).
01.02 Friday - 31.03 Sunday
Chopin Concerts at the Bonerowski Palace
Bonerowski Palace, ul. Św. Jana 1, tel. (+48)
510 32 29 46, www.cracowconcerts.com
Enjoy the music of Poland’s greatest composer,
Fryderyk Chopin, as performed by pianists
Witold Wilczek, Weronika Krówka, Dobróchna
Krówka, Kazuko Tsuji and others. Concerts are
every day and a glass of wine is included in
the price.QConcerts take place every day at
19:00. Tickets 55zł. Available at the reception
desk of Bonerowski Palace, open 24hrs, and
before the concert.
17.03 Sunday - 29.03 Friday
17th Ludwig Van Beethoven Easter Festival
tel. (+48) 61 646 52 60, www.beethoven.org.pl
This festival has been at the forefront of the
classical music calendar in Poland since
1997 and continues to grow in stature and
reputation on the international scene. In
2004 it moved from Kraków to Warsaw, with
its base now firmly established at the Warsaw
Philharmonic, ul. Sienkiewicza 10. Concerts
will also be performed at the Royal Castle in
the Old Town, Teatr Wielki - Polish National
Opera and a two day symposium, entitled
Beethoven: Sublimity and Enthusiasm,
at the Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Pl.
Malachowskiego 3.
Poznan
16.03 Saturday - Myslovitz Acoustically
Castle Cultural Centre, ul. Św. Marcin 80/82,
tel. (+48) 61 646 52 60, www.zamek.poznan.pl
Formed in the early 90s in Mysłowice - the
Silesian town from which they take their name
- Myslowitz is one of the most well-known and
successful rock bands in Poland. Formerly led
by influential frontman Artur Rojek, who now
organises the hugely successful OFF Festival
in Katowice, in 2012 Rojek left the band to be
replaced by former Snowman singer Michał
Kowalonek. The new lineup premiered in
December 2012 and hasn’t missed a beat,
releasing a few hit songs since, and retaining
their massive fanbase. This concert is a chance
to hear not only the new lineup, but also a rare
acoustic show, but be warned that tickets will
go fast.QConcert starts at 19:00. Tickets 4555zł. Available at Castle Cultural Centre box
office (Open 10:00 - 21:00).
12.03 Tuesday - 30.06 Sunday
The Human Body
Klub Fabryka, ul. Zabłocie 23, tel. (+48) 12
263 40 00
Fascinating,
informative, and a
tad bit macabre:
exhibits featuring
preserved human
bodies have been
increasingly popular in recent years. If you’re
not too faint of heart, and up for a spellbinding journey into the beauty and complexity of
human anatomy, the Human Body Exhibition
will be showcasing over 200 thematically organized organs and bodies. QOpen 9:00-19:00
Mon-Sun. Tickets 50zł during the week, 60zł on
weekends; discounts for students, seniors, children, and the disabled. Available at eventim.pl
and the venue.
20.03 Wednesday - Live Playing - Piotr &
Wojtek Cugowscy Acoustic Performance
Hard Rock Cafe, Pl. Mariacki 9, tel. (+48) 12
429 11 55, www.granienazywo.pl
Brothers Piotr and Wojtek Cugowski (plural:
Cugowscy) have a legacy to live up to - they’re
the sons of Krzysztof Cugowski, founder of the
rock band Budka Suflera, which put out some
of the best Polish rock ballads since their start in
1974. At Hard Rock, they’ll be performing acoustic
versions of songs from their band, appropriately
named Bracia (Brothers).QConcert starts at
20:00. Tickets 38-48zł. Available at www.ticketpro.
pl and before the concert.
This is not simply a series of Beethoven
concerts. Every year the organisers devise
the programme around different aspects of
Beethoven’s Age of Enlightenment ideas
of uniting people by a core set of values,
influences on his own work as a composer
and Beethoven’s influence on his musical
contemporaries. Highlights of this year’s
programme include concerts commemorating
the 200th anniversaries of the births of both
Verdi and Wagner. Verdi’s opera Simon
Boccanegra will be performed at the Warsaw
Philharmonic and Act II of Wagner’s Tristan &
Isolde will be staged at the National Opera.
The full programme and tickets are available
online at www.beethoven.org.pl
Gdansk
16.03 Saturday
200th Birthday of Giuseppe Verdi
Gdansk, Baltic Philharmonic Hall, ul.
Ołowianka 1, tel. (+48) 58 320 62 62, www.
filharmonia.gda.pl
In honour of the Italian composer’s 200th
birthday, the Symphonic Orchestra and Baltic
Philharmonic Choir, conducted by Antoni Wit,
present Aida - Verdi’s opera in four acts about
an Egyptian love triangle.QConcert starts
at 18:00. Tickets 50-90zł. Available at Baltic
Philharmonic box office (Open 10:30-18:00,
Wed 09:30 -16:00. Closed Mon).
In cooperation with In Your Pocket city guides
13 SPORT
Fornalik struggles to identify any local talent
Y
ou could clearly see that Poland
head coach, Waldemar Fornalik
was desperate. He not only went
to Bialystok to watch Jagiellonia struggle
against Wisla in the Polish Cup, but he
also gave himself few more days to decide
on his next squad. Maybe he was hoping to witness something amazing in the
Ekstraklasa.
The reason for his desperation was
obvious - with two Poland games
ahead, he wanted to add to his foreign
contingent. But when he had a closer
look at the Ekstraklasa - and he has been
seen everywhere, from Bielsko-Biala to
Gdansk - Fornalik found out how poor
the form of league players is. As a man
promoted from the Polish league to the
international job, he never wanted to
forget about his roots.
Jakub Wawrzyniak and Daniel Łukasik
were called up from Legia, while Łukasz
Teodorczyk joins the Poland squad
from Lech. The first of this trio was only
recently mocked by fan of Podbeskidzie
during the game, who claimed that
the team should play down his wing as
Wawrzyniak was so poor. Wawrzyniak
answered the mocking with a winning
goal, but the feeling that he should have
played better as a defender will not go
away.
Łukasik, on the other hand, is a player
of little international experience and the
only one from Legia’s younger players
that has maintained some of his form
from the autumn round of games. Lech’s
Teodorczyk hasn’t even started a single
game for the team he joined in the winter
transfer window.
The problems of the Ekstraklasa leaders
to maintain their form - or indeed to
improve it - is only one of the reasons for
Fornalik’s hesitation and lack of trust.
Legia were only just better than relegation
candidates Podbeskidzie last week, while
Lech’s victory in Zabrze came about
thanks only to a dubious penalty and the
fact that Gornik’s Nakoulma hilariously
missed from the spot at the other end. The
quality, however, was poor and media are
quite desperate in their search for possible
candidates from the league to play for
Poland.
For ex-Derby midfielder Przemysław
Kaźmierczak it was enough to score
a wonder goal in an otherwise hugely
uninspiring performance for Śląsk
in Chorzów. Monday’s “Przeglad
Sportowy” was suggesting that Fornalik
might have a closer look at midfielder’s
chances to play against Ukraine but,
strangely, the article failed to mention
anything of his other performances. Not
because the defensive midfielder is not
a good player but simply for the reason
that Kaźmierczak isn’t playing up to the
standard at the moment - a world class
goal aside.
Another example is Polonia’s pacy
winger, Miłosz Przybecki. His team
were counting heavily on his runs but
it was a mistake from Wisla’s left-back
Gordan Bunoza’s that allowed him
to open the scoreline in an otherwise
forgettable game. But the media
somehow went crazy about a player
capable of outrunning his marker,
occasionally even with the ball.
Fornalik promised to follow this
weekend’s games closely and make a
call up if anything - anyone - stood out.
After yet another winter clearout of the
Ekstraklasa’s biggest assets, the only
place it seems makes any sense to visit
is Warsaw’s Lazienkowska street where
Legia host Gornik on Friday night.
Otherwise Fornalik might as well as warm
himself in front of the TV - the last time he
went out in the freezing cold in Bialystok,
the only player capable of actually playing
the ball was Dani Quintana, a Spaniard
signed from their third division. As the
skilful midfielder, scorer of four in his
first three games for Jaga said if it were
not for the stadiums and the pitches, there
is no difference between his old and new
league. Food for thought perhaps?
Read more on Polish football
on Michal’s blog or follow him on
Twitter @polishscout
Round 18 results
Played
Pts
W
D
L
GD
1
Legia Warszawa
18
37
11
4
3
36-18
2
Lech Poznań
18
35
11
2
5
25-15
3
Polonia Warszawa
18
32
9
5
4
30-16
4
Górnik Zabrze
18
32
8
7
3
25-14
5
Śląsk Wrocław
18
31
9
4
5
28-23
6
Lechia Gdańsk
18
28
8
4
6
26-22
7
Piast Gliwice
18
26
8
2
8
24-26
8
Zagłębie Lubin *
18
25
8
4
6
24-19
9
Wisła Kraków
18
23
6
5
7
16-23
10
Jagiellonia Białystok
18
22
4
10
4
20-24
11
Pogoń Szczecin
18
22
6
4
8
17-22
12
Widzew Łódź
18
22
6
5
8
18-24
13
Korona Kielce
18
20
5
5
8
18-24
14
Ruch Chorzów
18
19
5
4
9
17-27
15
Podbeskidzie Bielsko-Biała
18
10
2
4
12
21-31
16
GKS Bełchatów
18
9
1
6
11
10-27
* Zagłębie Lubin deducted 3 pts for corruption in 2005/6 season
Zagłębie Lubin
GKS Bełchatów
Ruch Chorzów
Polonia Warszawa
Pogoń Szczecin
Górnik Zabrze
Lechia Gdańsk
2-1
1-2
0-0
1-1
1-2
0-2
0-1
3-2
Legia Warszawa
Widzew Łódź
Śląsk Wrocław
Wisła Kraków
Piast Gliwice
Lech Poznań
Korona Kielce
Round 19 fixtures
Friday 15th March
18:00
20:45
Legia Warszawa
Saturday 16th March
13:30
Korona Kielce
15:45
Widzew Łódź
18:00
Lech Poznań
Sunday 17th March
14:30
Śląsk Wrocław
17:00
Wisła Kraków
Monday 18th March
18:30
Piast Gliwice
Polonia Warszawa
Górnik Zabrze
Ruch Chorzów
Zagłębie Lubin
GKS Bełchatów
Pogoń Szczecin
Lechia Gdańsk
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Gospel Singing
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Poznan International Ladies Club
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together.
For further details feel free to contact Barbara by
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Meetings on the first Wednesday of the month
(September - June)
Andersia Hotel, Restaurant Mosaica, 9:30 AM
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Social time and information about upcoming
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Free conversation lessons
Church of England in Poland
The Sikh Community
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56. All are welcome. Kirtan starts at midday and
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Role Playing Game in Warsaw
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HASH HOUSE HARRIERS
International English-speaking group in Warsaw,
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Meet new friends. Open your imagination. More
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A new Poland Tartan Army Facebook group
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We are a Polish and Expat social group who organise a
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a few beers (or whatever takes your fancy!). We meet at
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