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Friday 1st June 2012
Issue 21 (172)
Obama says “Polish death camp”
Outrage as US president
makes gaff at tribute to
Polish WWII hero
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P
resident Barack Obama has sparked
fury and prompted immediate calls
for a personal apology after he referred to “Polish death camps” during a
speech in Washington.
Mr Obama made the remark at a ceremony in the American capital to honour a
Polish military hero who brought the first
detailed accounts of the Holocaust to the
western allies during the war.
In a rapid response PM Donald Tusk
described the reference to Polish camps as
unacceptable.
“Here, in Poland, we cannot accept such
words even if they are spoken by the leader
of a friendly power since we expect diligence, care, and respect from our friends on
issues of such importance as World War II
remembrance,” he said in a statement.
“The words uttered by President Obama
concerning ‘Polish death camps’ offended
all Poles,” he added.
Earlier Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski
had lambasted the American president saying on Twitter he had demonstrated “ignorance and incompetence”, and demanded an
apology from the White House.
President Bronislaw Komorowski has
since received a letter from his American
counterpart in which he expressed “regret”
The US president has caused uproar with comments he made during a speech in Washington
over his choice of words, but stopped short
of a full apology. Without this, anger over
the incident could well continue.
In the letter, he also stated that his mistake
could act as “an opportunity to ensure that
this and future generations know the truth”.
Poland suffered appalling human and
material losses during World War II so any
insinuation that the Nazi slaughter of millions of people in death and concentration
camps was in some way “Polish” is regarded as a gross insult.
“When somebody says ‘Polish death camps’ it
is as if there were no Nazis, no German responsi-
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bility, no Hitler,” commented the Polish PM.
Jaroslaw Kaczynski, a former prime minister and Law and Justice (PiS) leader, said only
an apology from President Obama would be
acceptable because the “Polish nation had
been terribly insulted and offended”.
The anger over Mr Obama’s comments was
exacerbated by the fact that they came during
the presentation of the award of the highest
civilian honour in the US- the Presidential
Medal of Freedom - to Jan Karski, the Polish army officer who twice smuggled himself
into the Warsaw Ghetto to gain information
on the Nazi treatment of Jews.
p.9 SPORT
p.13
Sex and soccer
Awful axe murders
Gdansk football in turmoil
What with the big competition mere
days away the whole country is gearing
itself up for an influx of tourists - including
the sex industry.
Like all businesses, escort agencies
and strip bars are looking to cash in on
the tournament and many have been
busy making preparations, reports
TVN.
Police were called to a horrific scene in
the village of Zamch, near Bilgoraj, this
Tuesday and discovered the bodies of two
children, Natalia and Laura, aged 6 and 9,
who had been killed with an axe. Also at
the scene was the corpse of the children’s
father, 37-year-old Adam K. who, it appears, had committed suicide after killing
the two girls.
With Euro 2012 just days away, football
fans in one of the host cities, Gdansk, have
been hit by a shock announcement that leaves
the future of their club in serious question.
Lechia Gdansk, who play their matches at
the brand new PGE Arena built especially
for Euro 2012, were hit, on Thursday, by the
shock news that their major shareholder
and financial backer has announced he
wants to withdraw from the club.
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EDITORIAL
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Thisweekinhistory
“The letter we have received from the
American president is a great success for
Poland.” Presidential adviser Jan Litynski
is clearly more than happy with the
response.
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slightly north of Wroclaw, the city that
witnessed the most damage.
A
lot has been made
over the Panorama documentary
which seemed to do everything in its power to
dissuade footy fans from
coming over to the two
host nations and supporting their team.
Now I’m not going to wax lyrical about
the programme’s OTT dramatisation, as
anybody who has spent any time in Poland
will be well aware it’s not the backwards
knuckle-dragging war zone the BBC
portrayed.
However one thing that has left me
gobsmacked me is the number of people I’ve
spoken to this week who flat out deny that
racism is an issue AT ALL in Polish football
or society - instead choosing to lambast the
documentary over the fact that Rzeszow and
Lodz are not host nations, which I’m afraid
is completely skirting around the topic.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I
found it very hard to block out the antisemitic chanting or the white power
logos captured on film and quite why the
authorities and clubs stand back and let
this happen is baffling, but that’s an issue
for another week.
That said, as I’ve been explaining to
worried friends and family members back
home all week, foreigners are going to
enter Poland and be blown away by the
hospitable nature of its citizens and wonder
what all the fuss was about.
I live in apparently one of the worst
districts of this fair city, and as far as
safety goes, I feel 10 times safer walking
through it, both day and night, than I ever
felt doing the same in the sunny streets of
Middlesbrough.
Fear not, the Euros are to be enjoyed!
(Editor’s note – readers might be
interested to read this response from
Polish football blogger Michal Zachodny
and view this video clip from American
basketball player Michael Ansley who has
played in Poland since 2000.)
“Obama’s words do not reflect his views.”
President Komorowski in an attempt to
play down the scandal.
“I urge the US government to begin a
public information campaign, promoting
the knowledge of the history of the
Nazi death camps.” Former president
Aleksander Kwasniewski believes that
there is a need for more education
regarding certain areas of history.
Re: Going gaga for the Euros
Tomaszewski and his ilk are disgusting
apologists for racism and anti Semitism,
dressing it up as loyal support for a club or
country and should take a really long hard
look at themselves and the international
damage they are inflicting on Poland.
The eyes of the world will be on Poland
and what they are at risk of seeing a small
minded, primitive mind set, locked firmly
in the past. It’s not the real Poland but it is a
version of Poland Tomaszewski represents.
I don’t know about fan’s sausage but I
can think of a human appendage the likes
of this clown reminds me of.
Richard Sole - Saltburn, England
I don’t particularly care for Tomaszewski,
but the man has every right to state he
won’t be supporting his country.
I won’t be supporting my country during
the Euros, largely as I find 99% of footballers
overpaid, arrogant sods. It’s a sad state of affairs
when someone can get excited about the likes of
John Terry representing their country.
While my reasons are completely
different to Tomaszewski’s, get over the
fact that it’s his own personal choice.
K. Peters - Nottingham, England
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NEWS
Sex and soccer BBC documentary under fire
W
hat with the big competition
mere days away the whole country is gearing itself up for an influx of tourists - including the sex industry.
Like all businesses, escort agencies and
strip bars are looking to cash in on the
tournament and many have been busy
making preparations, reports TVN.
In Gdansk one agency has reportedly
rented a number of apartments overlooking
the sea for prostitutes to take extra clients
to and prices will also rocket, with one
hour in a lady’s company in Warsaw
expected to increase from PLN 300 to PLN
500, depending on the agency.
“There will be a lot of interest,”
Magdalen Sroda, an ethics consultant and
philosopher, tells the station. “There is
huge money involved and this is one of the
biggest industries in which to make money
outside drug and arms trafficking.”
In a bid to prevent this illegal problem,
TVN claims that police are planning a
number of raids and will be looking for
victims of human trafficking.
Reports states that during Switzerland
and Austria’s Euro 2008 and Germany’s
World Cup 2006, the increase in
prostitution was not as widespread as
initially anticipated.
“The experience we have gained from
these two tournaments indicate that
the problem may not be as large as we
are expecting in Poland,” says police
spokesman Krzysztof Hajdas.
A
BBC documentary on racism in
Polish and Ukrainian football
which featured a former English
international warning people not to travel
to the Euro 2012 because they “might come
home in a coffin” has been condemned as
“one sided” by Polish officials.
The documentary, aired just days
before the start of European football
championship, chronicled racist and antiSemitic incidents in football grounds in
both Poland and Ukraine. Along with
detailing anti-Semitic chanting and
banners at Polish grounds it carried an
interview with Sol Campbell, the exEngland captain who, along with the
coffin comment, said he would not want
his family to travel to the games owing to
safety concerns.
“It was a very one sided programme,”
said Jacek Cichocki, the Polish interior
minister. “What upset me the most was
that they spoke to a person unfamiliar
with safety in this country [Campbell].
If they had spoken to somebody
familiar with the issue, like a police
officer, then the reaction would have
been different.”
In an act of damage limitation, Prime
Minister Donald Tusk got in on the act
making a direct appeal to people who may
have watched the programme.
“I want to stress, especially to British
tourists and fans coming to Krakow, that
every weekend thousands of people travel
to that city. We have never had- and I
emphasize never - a single incident of
racism reported by a British tourist.”
The foreign ministry also sent a
statement to the BBC challenging the
reporting while PL.2012, the organisers
of the Polish branch of the tournament,
went as far as issuing an invitation to Mr
Campbell to come to Poland and enjoy the
hospitality.
Others in Poland were less polite and
diplomatic in their response. Online
forums filled up with posts, with many
dismissing the programme as “biased
propaganda”, and arguing that racism
was not especially a Polish, or Ukrainian,
problem.
They also pointed out that a map of
Central Europe featured at the start of
the documentary had got Austria and
the Czech Republic confused and also
included, for reasons that remained a
mystery, Yugoslavia.
Despite the basic geography error and
the Polish counter-attack, the damage may
already have been done. British papers,
which ran stories on the documentary,
later ran stories of fans calling travel agents
to cancel their trips in an attempt to get
their money back.
Poland’s reputation, along with that of
Ukraine, also took a battering at a time
when the country is desperate to use the
football as an opportunity to paint itself as
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NEWS
Football gang members arrested More power
P
olice and officers from the Central
Bureau of Investigation have arrested 42 people on suspicion of
drug trafficking and extortion in a crack
down on criminal gangs linked to football
clubs.
Those detained included Piotr S., alias
Staruch, and Rafal S., alias Szkatula,
who are thought to be key figures in a
criminal underworld operating among
fans of some of Poland’s leading football
clubs.
The swoop by the officers, many of them
heavily armed, comes as part of a campaign
against football related crime before the
European football championship kicks off
later this month.
Prosecutors said the arrested consisted
of gangsters and fans eager to carry out
the orders of their bosses. Many of the
foot soldiers belonged to Teddy Boys 95, a
notorious group of alleged fans linked to
the Legia Warszawa club.
Zbigniew Jaskolski, spokesman for the
Warsaw prosecutor’s office, said Piotr S.
stands accused of selling “large quantities
of drugs” and faces up to 10 years behind
bars, if found guilty. In 2010 he got a two
year suspended sentence for drug dealing,
and was arrested last year in connection
with the rioting that marred the Polish FA
cup final in Bydgoszcz.
The bust lifted the lid on what appears
to be an organised criminal network
working under the cover of football
supporters. Investigators estimate that
in the past four years the gang, under the
leadership of Staruch and Szkatula may
have sold up to 3.7 tons of marijuana, half
a ton of amphetamines, 300 kilograms
of cocaine and 250 kilograms of heroin.
Gang members also used weapons to
frighten people into paying extortion
money.
“These people used [football] stadiums
to strike up criminal contacts or as places
to recruit new members of gangs,” Mariusz
Sokolowski, spokesman for national police
headquarters, told the TVN 24 news
channel. “We did not detain these people
for hooligan activity but for suspected
criminal activity.”
Investigators revealed that much of the
evidence came from disaffected members
of the gang who had turned against their
old comrades in narcotics.
But getting a successful prosecution
might prove difficult. During Staruch’s
first trial rumours circulated of witnesses
being compromised, and many observers
were surprised by the leniency of the
sentence. Staruch also enjoyed brief fame
as leader of fans and as an outspoken critic
of the Donald Tusk government and its
approach to football.
A former art student, he made
appearances in radio and television
studios and even, apparently, won the
backing of some members of Law and
Justice (PiS).
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I
t was announced this week that military police have been granted the same
powers as ordinary police officers for a
limited period due to the Euro 2012 tournament.
The reason behind the decision is to
help take the pressure off police officers
and border guards who are preparing for
the arrival of thousands of football fans
looking to cheer on their countries.
According to reports, authorities have
requested the support of approximately
1,000 military police officers (although
1,300 were initially declared ready to help)
and 1,200 soldiers. Lieutenant Colonel
Marcin Wiacek, Chief of Military Police,
also told PAP news agency that more
would be made available if they are needed
at a later date.
“If there is in fact a need for additional
patrols, then we will increase the numbers,”
he stated.
Military police will be present in all four
host cities as well as a number of other
locations such as Szczecin, Bydgoszcz,
Krakow and Radom and their special
privileges will last between June 1 - July 5.
Major General Miroslaw Rozmus added
that soldiers would be deployed in the four
hosting citied as well as Krakow and that
their tasks would be down to the decision
of provincial police commanders.
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Spud connection
Mayor of Poznan Ryszard Grobelny has popped
up on Irish TV in a pre-Euro advert welcoming
fans to the city.
During the spot, Mr Grobelny shows some of
the more well-known aspects of Poznan such
as its ‘famous goats’, ‘szneka’ cakes and, of
course, ‘potatoes’.
“It was impossible not to mention the culinary
similarities, hence the idea of showing the potato,
or ‘pyry’ as we say here,” states Borys Fromberg,
spokesman for the city’s Promotions Office.
Feel like at home?
There was embarrassment in Warsaw this week
after it was pointed out that a huge Euro 2012
banner hanging up in the Central Station
contained a glaring error by stating “Feel like
at home”.
According to Fakt, PM Donald Tusk recently
made the same mistake on his video blog
during his invitation to foreign fans.
However, Sports Minister Joanna Mucha sees
no problem with the gaff. “We consulted native
speakers to make sure it was clear and that’s
the most important thing,” she says.
Motorway’s almost away
There has been a mad last-minute dash
to complete the new A2 motorway which
connects the German border to Warsaw.
According to Gazeta Wyborcza, Bogl a Krysl - the
third contractor to work on the road - is applying
the finishing touches and is confident of it being
fully operational in time for Euro 2012.
Fears over football prices
T
here have been a number of reports over recent weeks regarding the rising prices of basic everyday goods as a result of the football
championships.
Economic analysts state that Euro
2012 will be a “golden opportunity” for
shop keepers, restaurants, pubs and fast
food outlets, reports daily newspaper
Fakt, but that both Poles and travelling
fans alike will feel the pinch in their
pockets.
With supporters set to descend on
the country from all over Europe,
the paper claims that shop keepers
and, perhaps more importantly, those
in charge of the official ‘Fan Zones’
and booths inside the four stadia, are
rubbing their hands together at the
prospect of additional profits, with
the average increase estimated at
somewhere around 10-15 percent.
Andrzej Gartner, Director of the
Polish Federation of Food, told the
paper that while the price of many
products are set to be hiked, it is the
smaller “essentials” that will see the
biggest increase.
“In this case, you are looking at the
kind of products that as deemed as ‘fan
necessities’ such as snacks, soft drinks,
beer and other alcohol and sweets,” he
stated.
However, rather than rising costs
being restricted to only host cities
and cities with major airports, reports
claim that other locations around the
country, such as mountains and coastal
tourist resorts, will most likely take the
opportunity to cash in too.
Despite the official holiday season
still a few weeks away, many resorts will
bump up their prices to coincide with
the tournament in order to maximise
summer profits.
There are also additional fears that
many prices will remain hiked after
football fans return home, the effect of
which being an increased cost of living
for the general public.
Fans looking to enjoy watching
their team from one of the many fan
areas dotted around the country can
expect to pay premium prices and the
newspaper even goes as far as to warn
Polish fans to stay at home with friends
and take in the tournament in front of
the television.
According to Andrzej Gartner, people
will not notice the small increases on
individual items, however when buying
a number of goods at once, the extra
costs will soon hit home.
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T
his seems to be
Put the Boot in
on Poland Week
- an event greeted with
joy from Tijuana to
Timbucktoo. What with
the Beeb showing Sol
Campbell declaring that visitors to Euro2012
might go home in a body bag, swiftly followed
by Obama blaming the holocaust on entirely
the wrong nation in singularly knuckle-headed
manner, I’ve decided, as usual, to head in the
opposite direction, and reaffirm how stonkingly brilliant my adopted country is.
mAzOWIECkIE
Bailiffs or bailout?
W
arsaw’s Museum of Technology is facing closure, if directors at
the museum are to
be believed, despite
receiving a PLN 3
mln subsidy from the
Ministry of Science and Higher Education.
Directors say they need PLN 5 mln and that
bailiffs will turn up at the museum sooner or
later if they don’t receive the extra cash.
The Museum claims it’s short of PLN 2 mln
for the rent and that the Ministry reduced
the subsidy this year because it’s allocating
funds only for educational purposes, not for
maintaining buildings. “We’re not angry
with the Ministry, but PLN 3 mln is only
enough for our main work: maintaining
exhibits, organising displays and paying
staff wages. We still need the money for the
A joke circulating the Interthingy that I
saw the other day archly praises pre-transformation Poland, describing the seven
miracles of the Polish People’s Republic:
1. Everybody had a job
2. Although everybody had a job, nobody
worked
3. Even though nobody worked, the targets
were always more than 100% achieved
4. Despite the fact that the targets were always more than 100% achieved, there was
nothing to buy
5. Even though there was nothing to buy,
everybody had everything
6. Although everybody had everything, everybody stole
7. Even though everybody stole everything,
in the end, nobody went without.
It certainly gives a sense of the living
paradox that was the totalitarian People’s
Republic. ‘Everybody had everything’,
though, is patent nonsense. Everybody had
nothing would be closer to the mark.
There were comforts to be had in the
shared deprivation and misery of the PRL,
but compared to the multimedia, materialistic, McDonalded reality of 2012 - it was a
dire, diabolical dump. I loved the bizarre,
nonsensical Poland of 1989, but it really
wasn’t a nice place to live. Criticize the Poland of today all you like - it’s still fabulous
compared to what it was.
rent. If we can’t find it, the bailiffs will be
round. We can’t earn enough from ticket
sales alone,” Piotr Zarzycki, vice-director of
the museum, told reporters.
Head of the Central Technical Organisation
(NOT), Ewa Mankiewicz-Cudny, which
owns the building that houses the museum,
disagreed, telling reporters, “The Museum
of Technology is not under threat. We’re
looking for an internal solution. NOT is
a non-governmental organisation, not a
private landlord. Mr Zarzycki isn’t telling the
truth. PLN 3 mln is enough for the museum
to survive. I’ve arranged to meet with the
finance and science ministries to work out a
long-term solution. I don’t understand why
Mr Zarzycki is interfering. Talks are ongoing,
everyone wants to help and is convinced that
the museum must continue. There is no threat
and there will be no threat.”
On Friday June 8, in honour of the Euros,
a new display will open in the museum titled,
“Football’s technical tricks” presenting the technological development of footballing equipment.
Jarmark’s last stand
D
espite all attempts to liquidate the Jarmark Europy from the vicinity of the
National Stadium, several unsightly tin
shacks still stand and will be open for business throughout the upcoming Euros. The
handful of remaining stalls, which were due
to be demolished this Thursday, will now
survive a little longer as the owners of the
land on which they stand have appealed
against the demolition order.
The Jarmark was one of the largest bazaars
in Europe until the preparations for Euro
2012 led to the demolition of its home in
the old Stadion Dziesieciolecia and Warsaw
Coach Station. About 100 stallholders,
mainly from Bulgaria and Vietnam, will
continue to offer cheap handbags, miniskirts
and outsize bras, as well as a reminder of
what was once an enormous shambles of
untrammelled free-enterprise, a mere 200m
from Warsaw’s gleaming new stadium. The
exhibition will run to July 31st.
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Jail for rape bullies
Playground arrests protest
T
wo adolescents
who raped a
15-year-old girl in
a
re-socialisation
unit in November 2010 [See NPE
46/97], were sentenced this week to
five and six years respectively at Tarnow
Regional Court. The incident, involving a
17-year-old male and female, took place in
Lysa Gora, with a mass brawl involving the
young people in the centre breaking out a
few days after the sexual assault took place.
Katarzyna N. and Przemyslaw S.
were convicted of raping and bullying a
15-year-old girl at the unit. In addition to
the custodial sentences, they have been
forbidden to come closer than 50m from
their victim for the next 10 years and to pay
PLN 5,000 each in compensation to the girl.
They were charged with actual bodily
harm, threatening behaviour and making
death threats as well as forcing the girl to
have sex. Katarzyna N. also faced charges of
bullying, including punching and shoving
the girl, forcing her head down a toilet
before flushing it, threatening to kill her and
degrading behaviour, including stripping
the girl in front of others and touching her.
The two attackers were charged as adults,
while three other people involved in the
incident went before juvenile courts. Judge
Tomasz Koziol also highlighted the failings
in the management of the centre that
contributed to the incident.
The case was difficult to conduct because,
following the incident, many of the youths
involved were separated and sent to different
units. Also, the victim showed no interest at
all in the case and gave birth to a child last
December.
She had to be escorted by police from
another part of the country to the court to
give testimony because, she told the court
when excusing her absence, she didn’t have
the money to make the journey. Expert
psychologists were of the opinion that the
events at the unit had not had a lasting effect
on her mental state.
After the events of November 2010, the
unit in Lysa Gora was closed down because
authorities decided the staff there were
unable to guarantee the safety of young
people placed there and lacked a properly
worked out educational programme.
At the end of last year the director of the
unit at the time of the incidents, Tadeusz C.,
was given a one year suspended sentence for
failing in his duties, especially with regard
to the safety of the young people in his care.
T
he authorities of
a nursery school
in Bydgoszcz were
outraged after a police SWAT team carried out an operation
to arrest two members of a criminal
gang on school grounds in front of 150 children. “It was important to have the element
of surprise,” say the police.
Officers from the Central Bureau of
Investigation (CBS) arrested two suspected
members of the city’s “Ksiecia” gang in a
nursery school in Osowa Gora. The two
men were suspected of participating in the
kidnapping of a bank worker.
The two men were living in a flat
above the classrooms. “Police officers
entered the flat, closed the door and only
then handcuffed the suspects,” Monika
Chlebicz, press officer for the regional
police headquarters in Bydgoszcz, told
reporters.
However, the school director was
outraged at the operation. “The arrested
men were led through the school grounds.
I will be seeking an explanation why we
were not informed about the operation.
We could have moved the children into
a secure place during the incident. We
have our own procedures,” said the school
director, Adrianna Nowak. Parents of the
children were also upset. An operation
like that placed our children in great
danger, it’s highly irresponsible,” they told
reporters.
Police, though, remain adamant that,
“We cannot inform anyone of these kinds
of operations, it would be senseless. We
have to retain the element of surprise.”
Bydgoszcz’s police commissioner has
ordered an investigation to ensure
that officers acted in accordance with
procedure.
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LuBELSkIE
LODzkIE
Awful axe murders
Blood blunder
P
olice were called to
a horrific scene in
the village of Zamch,
near Bilgoraj, this Tuesday and discovered the
bodies of two children,
Natalia and Laura, aged
6 and 9, who had been killed with an axe. Also
at the scene was the corpse of the children’s father, 37-year-old Adam K. who, it appears, had
committed suicide after killing the two girls.
The dead man’s brother called police
on finding his brother, hanged and with
slashed wrists. “There were traces of blood
in the house. The officers began looking for
the source. It turned out that underneath a
blanket there were the massacred remains of
the two girls. The father most probably killed
them with an axe,” Janusz Wojtowicz, from
Lublin Police Headquarters, told reporters.
The girls’ mother had gone away for the
week, taking her eight-month old son with
her, in this way escaping the attack. Adam
K. left a suicide note, but the contents have
not been made public.
Prosecutors are waiting to interview
the mother, who is currently receiving
psychiatric care. “On account of her
condition, it’s not possible to question her
at the moment,” commented Romuald
Sitarz for Zamosc Regional Prosecutors,
adding that they would see how the woman
was after the weekend.
Very little detail has emerged since
Tuesday, although it is believed that
the father had attempted suicide once
before, at the beginning of April. His wife
reported him missing and he was found
later wandering through woods with a
rope in his hand. There are rumours that
the couple were separating, something the
man was unable to cope with.
Post mortems will be conducted on all
three bodies this Friday in Lublin.
Thieves visit jail
P
olice officers from Opole Lubelskie arrested three young men this Wednesday
afternoon who robbed two shops in the village of Karczmiska. It turned out that when
they committed the crimes the men were on
their way to visit a friend in Opole jail.
The men, all in their early twenties from
Pulaw, stopped off at a grocery store and a
chemists on the way to the jail and helped
themselves to goods worth PLN 180.
The shops’ owners, though, noticed the
thefts and called in police who were able
to rapidly identify the culprits thanks to
CCTV footage of the incidents. Less than
an hour later, they were arrested.
A
67-year-old man
died in a Lodz
hospital after receiving a transfusion of
the wrong blood type.
Initial investigations
by prosecutors from
Lodz-Baluty suggest that it was this mistake
that led directly to the man’s death.
The incident occurred at the Lung
Disease and Rehabilitation Centre, and it
was the Centre’s own director who called
in prosecutors following the man’s death
on May 22. Krzysztof Kopania, press
officer for Lodz prosecutors, told Gazeta
Lodz, “The initial post mortem results
have confirmed the thesis of a possible
link between the mistake made in giving
a transfusion of an incompatible blood
group and the patient’s death.” However,
further investigations are continuing in
a specialist unit. “We’re testing the blood
samples taken during the post mortem
and still waiting for the results,” continued
Kopania
The key issue for prosecutors is to
establish precisely how the mistake
occurred, the people involved in the
incident and in what way each of them
may have contributed to the error. “The
basic question is to unambiguously decide
whether the mistake caused the patient to
die. We will have to refer the results for
expert assessment to help us in this regard.
All the medical documentation in the
case has been secured and the hospital’s
director was interviewed this Thursday. If
anyone at the hospital is found guilty of
causing the accidental death of the patient,
they could face up to five years in prison.
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BuSINESS
1 .3 mln kids live in poverty
O
ne in five Polish children are currently living in poverty claims a
new report by UNICEF.
The study, which looks at child poverty
in European nations, states that in
total approximately 1.3 million Polish
children do not have access to a number
of things that are regarded as essential
for proper development, writes Gazeta
Wyborcza.
The report gives a number of
examples, such as three square meals
a day (one of which including meat or
fish or a vegetarian equivalent), daily
fresh fruit and vegetables, money for
school trips, a bike or scooter, a quiet
place for homework, internet access,
books for their age group and at least one
educational game.
“People tend to think about food and
clothes when it comes to poverty, but often
forget about other key areas,” says Ewa
Falkowska of UNICEF Poland.
Out of 29 nations, Poland performed
poorly and was ranked 24th, ahead of
Portugal, Latvia, Hungary, Bulgaria and
Romania.
“The main problem is unemployment,”
adds Falkowska. “The percentage of poor
children in families where parents have no
job is 47 percent. Compare that to Sweden
which sits at just 8 percent.”
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Save time with tickets
Train passengers during the Euros will be able to buy
tickets via their phones Transport Minister Slawomir
Nowak announced this week.
Travellers will not have to print out a ticket, but instead
just show a QR code on their phone, tablet or laptop
to the conductor, states TVN24.
In addition to this, the ministry announced that a special
network of internet points and Wi-Fi zones will be set up
in the stations located in the host cities and that these
will be further developed after the competition.
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
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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issue of the discussions is the path that must
be taken in order to develop a better Eastern
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his week saw the start of the 3rd Wroclaw Global Forum - a three day event
aimed at looking at trans-Atlantic relations and the recent situation with Ukraine.
This year’s edition, entitled ‘The New
Face of the West’ features a number of
well known names such as Lech Walesa,
Aleksander Kwasniewski and boxer Vitali
Klitschko as well as various politicians from
the US and Europe.
“I’m extremely happy and proud that so
many politicians and officials are meeting
here in our city,” stated Wroclaw mayor
Rafal Dutkiewicz.
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Poland hit by second Katyn tragedy
The number of copies computer game ‘Witcher
2’ (designed by Polish company CS Projekt RED)
has sold around the globe.
28%
The rise in the number of loans to buy new cars
in Q1 of 2012 since the same period last year,
according to TVN.
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More temp staff
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An increasing number of Polish firms are choosing to take on
temporary staff, states the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy.Y
In total the amount of temporary workers throughout
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reports Parkiet, which also claims that the figures are MYa
clear reflection of the post-crisis labour market.
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by large multinationals, more Polish firms, even
small ones, are going down this route,” says Alicja
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ENTERTAINmENT
SOmETHINGFORTHEWEEkENDfromInYourPocket
W
hile a large
portion of the
media has been cooking
up straw man stories
about what a disaster
EURO 2012 will be for
Poland, Ukraine and
any living soul insane
enough to step foot in either country—from
the BBC’s controversial exposé about racist violence in the host countries, to the local
Kraków Post’s laughable report that Kraków
hotels are losing money as a result of Euro
2012 because their “regular customers” have
by turned off from visiting by the estimated
100,000 football fans who wouldn’t be coming
to town under normal circumstances—we at
In Your Pocket have been busy getting excited
about this landmark event and doing everything in our power to provide Poland’s foreign
guests with the information they’ll be looking
for when they arrive in June.
So having broken our stones over this project for the last few months, we hope you’ll
indulge us with a bit of shameless self-promotion before we get satirical about the week’s
events. In addition to our regular June guides
to Kraków and Warsaw, IYP has produced
special edition guides to all of the EURO 2012
host cities—that’s Wrocław, Poznań, Gdańsk
and Warsaw—and we’re so thorough we’ve
even done Kraków which will have a couple
fan zones of its own, as well as the exciting opportunity to see the Italian, Dutch and English
in action at public practices. Covering the history of Polish football and this year’s national
squad, detailed information on how to get to
the stadiums and fan zones, the best places to
watch the matches, what to do beyond football,
where to find additional fan information and
more, these special addition guides have also
been produced not only in English, but also
the national languages of all of the fans’ whose
teams will be playing matches in Poland during the group stage (Russian, Italian, Czech,
Greek, Spanish, Croatian and even German
for team based in Gdansk who you just know
will end up playing in Poland at some stage).
While the print editions will hit the market
next week, they are also available online via
our website where you’ll find free PDF downloads for your tablet, and as an iPhone application through iTunes. In addition to the bevy of
special maps you’ll find in each edition, GPS
locations have been included for every venue
listed, down to the tram and bus stops that will
help you reach the stadium in each city. If you
can somehow come up with a question whose
answer we haven’t covered, the IYP team will
also be providing a daily stream of information via facebook and Twitter that will genuinely keep everyone up to date with all that is
going on in each city.
Having gone to such trouble to provide the
best local coverage imaginable during Euro
2012, we were a bit taken aback this week
when the BBC, and its spoon-fed spokesman
Sol Campbell, informed us that all of our effort has apparently been for naught due to the
internationally regurgitated news that foreign
fans foolish enough to come to PL for this
completely lawless football tournament will be
murdered by xenophobic thugs upon arrival.
While we understand the national threat to
England that this tournament poses—after all,
positive media exposure given to Poland could
result in the explosion of an already large demographic of able-bodied men in England
who want to move to Poland on the promise of
better work opportunities and more beautiful
wives—the BBC should know that Soviet-style
propaganda simply isn’t the right approach in
this part of Europe. Whether this attempt to
frighten the British public away from Poland
and Ukraine is successful in the UK or not, in
Eastern Europe it only succeeds in making the
British national media look biased, hypocritical, and naïve (Poland does not share a border
with Austria, for example).
Fortunately, with the Polish outcry over
BBC’s Stadiums of Hate ‘documentary’ growing fierce, United States president Barack
Obama has quickly grabbed the diplomatic
hot seat (as any obedient British ally would)
with his linguistic faux pas about “Polish
death camps”. With Obama’s slip-up coming
during a ceremony honouring Jan Karski’s effort to warn the west about the Holocaust, the
American president must have known he had
a perfect opportunity to slyly accuse the Polish
of being Nazis, only for all to be forgiven later.
Obama was also able to throw himself under
the bus knowing that in a few days he wouldn’t
be sending the American ‘soccer’ squad to
Nowa Huta to hold a public practice in front
of 3,200 locals he’d just accused of being hooligans that perpetrate hate crimes every time a
non-white person comes to town. For the Polish people, Euro 2012 is a proud, patriotic occasion to show the rest of Europe just how far
it has come in the last 20 years; an occasion it
hardly wants to jeopardise. If hooliganism (a
British invention and export which afflicts all
of Europe) mars this landmark tournament in
PL, the English have themselves to blame for
instigating that small minority of Poles that
might indulge them by perpetrating it.
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Gdansk
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07 .06 Thursday
PitBull at the UEFA Euro2012 Fanzone
Gdańsk, Fan Zone, Pl. Zebrań Ludowych
Gdańsk’s Fan Zone has prepared many
attractions for Euro 2012. One highlight should
be the first Polish concert of American rapper
PitBull, I wondered why I hadn’t heard of him.
Apparently for this special occasion he’s
prepared a special set. The mind boggles:
an analysis of the rise of the triquartista and
the wingback? Perhaps the demise of the
traditional number 9, insert Andy Carroll gag
here.QConcert starts at 18:00. Tickets 50125zł. Available at Empik, ul. Podwale Grodzkie
8 (Open 09:00 - 21:00, Sun 11:00 - 20:00).
02 .06 Saturday - 03 .06 Sunday
Streetwaves 2012
Event takes place in various location. Check
description for more info., www.streetwaves.pl
Streetwaves is a weekend of citywide events
with the aim of bringing the action from clubs
and galleries out into the spaces of the city.
The venues are often overlooked out of the
way spots, so the whole affair is a great chance
to see the city from a different angle. On 2nd
June from 12:00-17:00 events will take place in
the Orunia district. Later from 17:00 - 24:00 the
focus will shift to Biskupia Górka and Zaroślak.
On 3rd June 12:00 - 19:00 go to Żabianka, later
from 19:00 - 24:00 walk down to Jelitkowo. There
are concerts, picnics, exhibitions, workshops,
spectacles, street performances and meetings
to choose from and the artists performing
include Baaba, UL/KR, D4D, Asia i Koty, Paula i
Karol, The Shipyard and Hatifnats. This year we
also welcome foreign star Dave Nolan Behan,
aka Blllo, spinning the discs at the after party
on Biskupia Górka. QFull schedule available at
www.streetwaves.pl. Admission free.
Krakow
Krakow
01 .06 Friday - 03 .06 Sunday
International French Song Festival
tel. (+48) 12 421 28 23,
www.festiwalpiosenkifrancuskiej.pl
This is a musical festival on an international
scale and is organised for the 3rd time. Vocalists
participate and compete for the Grand Prix
Edith Piaf. Once again the festival will be visited
by Bernard Marchois and Bernard Miller who will
share their love of Edith Piaf and their knowledge
of her life. The first stage of qualifications took
place on May 12th and the jury selected 30
participants. Later five more vocalists joined the
list having won other French song competitions.
The participants come from Russia, Lithuania,
Belarus, Haiti, Uzbekistan, France, Germany and
Poland and will will present their interpretations
of French songs in front of a jury. The competition
has attracted a lot of interest from across the
generations with the contestants ranging in
age from 17 to 62. This year participants will
perform classical Piaf compositions but some
more adventurous souls will sing modern
interpretations. Meanwhile on 1st June at 19:00
at Radio Kraków, Al. Słowackiego 22, at 19:00
there will be a concert with Roger Martineau and
on 2nd at 19:00 the competition laureates will
sing in front of an audience on Rynek Główny.
Finally on 3rd June at Radio Kraków there will be
an ‘encore’ concert with Roger Martineau. C’est
bon.QAdmission free.
02 .06 Saturday - 03 .06 Sunday
XIIth Great Dragon Parade - Neighbours
tel. (+48) 12 278 32 66, www.paradasmokow.pl
We all know the legends of Kraków’s mythical
dragon. Well, this is your chance to come along
and see the real fire-breathing variety. Organised
for the 12th time, again by Groteska Theatre, the
parade has become something of a signature of
the city, attracting people from Poland and abroad.
The main theme is the four elements of air, water,
fire, wind and this this year the organisers have
added a 5th - culture. Specifically, as the title implies,
it is the culture of Poland’s geographical neighbours
which will be the centre of attention. Come and
learn about German composers, elements of
Belarussian folklore, Ukrainian architecture, Czech
fairy tales, Slovakian views and Latvian heritage. The
programme is super cool and goes like this:
Warsaw
01 .06 Friday - 03 .06 Sunday - Ursynalia
ul. Nowoursynowska 166 (Ursynów), tel. (+48)
22 222 07 00
This is part of the Juwenalia student festival
and is organised by Warsaw University of Life
Sciences at their campus at Ursynów district.
Taking place over 3 days it is a big deal and
only Olsztyn’s Kortowiada can compete with
the Ursynalia. Last year stars were Korn, Simple
Plan and Guano Apes. This time round the
artists confirmed are Slayer, Limp Bizkit, Billy
Talent and Nightwish, with more coming, watch
this space.QTickets 49-129zł. Available at
www.ticketpro.pl and Empik, ul. Złota 59 (Open
10:00 - 22:00, Sun 10:00 - 20:00).
2012-05-18 14:22:02
02.06 Saturday - 03.06. Sunday
Dragon Family Picnic
02.06 Saturday
22:00 - Great Outdoor Vistula Event
-This will take place near the bend in the river by
Wawel and is a son-et-lumiere affair on the river, with
fireworks, effects, music, light and ‘water curtains’.
There will be great big floating and flying dragons,
up to 25m long and 15m high. The splendid
creatures will be on barges and other boats and
animated by the actors from the Groteska Theatre
actors. This year the spectacle is inspired by the
culture of the middle east. Cracking stuff.
03.06 Sunday
12:00-14:30 - The Great Dragons Parade
ul. Grodzka - Rynek Główny - a parade of
dragons, knights and ladies-in-waiting with over a
thousand children from the whole country taking
part. They design and animate the dragons
themselves, very impressive. All the dragons will
compete for the title of the most beautiful and
creative dragon. The children and their dragons
participate in the colourful walk with music and
the roar of dragons competing with dancers,
orchestras, knights, princesses and jugglers.
For these few hours all of them become actors
of this incredible open-air show, watched by
thousands of locals and tourists visiting Kraków
especially to see the parade. It’s all great fun and
highly recommended.QAdmission free.
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Final friendlies before finals
P
oland’s squad continues in their preparations for the Euros having defeated
Slovakia 1-0 last weekend and heading this Saturday for a final trial against the
might of Andorra before facing Greece in
earnest on June 8. Anything less than a convincing victory against the Pyrenean parttimers could dent the confidence of a side
that shows some signs of gelling prior to the
biggest event in Polish footballing’s history.
Whether Franciszek Smuda will survive
to oversee the tournament is dubious, if his
response to the Slovakia match is anything
to go by. “It was the worst match in my entire
life. Not because we played poorly in the
second half. I was worried one of the players
might get injured. When I saw some of the
“reducers” coming in from the Slovakians,
I was shuddering on the bench. Luckily the
match is behind us now,” commented the
manager known for his nervousness.
The old cliche, that football is a game of
two halves, is never truer than when applied
to games like the Slovakia friendly. When
half the team changes at half-time, there
is always going to be disruption to the flow
of play. Poland’s first team in the first half,
played quite well, Damien Perquis scoring
with a fine header shortly before the break.
Afterwards, things were sloppier and
slower, as if the life had been drained from
the players. Smuda admitted the second
half was poor, adding, “We can’t change
our style now. We want to play attacking
football. Faster, much faster than yesterday.”
Following that game, Smuda had the task
of informing the three players who were to
be cut from the squad. Those three were
Jodlowiec, Kucharczyk and Glik - the latter
since complaining bitterly at the manner of
his dismissal.
“While Smuda was talking to Michal
Kucharczyk, I was in reception with Tomek
Jodlowiec. He called us over and said we were
out - because somebody had to go. And that
was it. He didn’t give any arguments, for a
simple reason - he didn’t have any. We’re out
because it had to be somebody? You can talk
like that to kids, or 15-year-old juniors, but
not with grown-ups.” Glik just completed a
successful season in Italy, winning promotion
with Torino to Serie A and attracting praise
from Italy manager Cesare Prandelli.
The Poland squad has since returned
from Lienz in Austria, where they spent
two weeks preparing, and as of Thursday
evening are ensconced in their Warsaw
base prior to Saturday’s joust with Andorra.
Gdansk football in turmoil
W
ith Euro 2012 just days away,
football fans in one of the host
cities, Gdansk, have been hit by
a shock announcement that leaves the future of their club in serious question.
Lechia Gdansk, who play their matches at
the brand new PGE Arena built especially
for Euro 2012, were today hit by the shock
news that their major shareholder and
financial backer has announced he wants
to withdraw from the club.
An announcement by local city President
Pawel Adamowicz, stated that major
shareholder Andrzej Kuchar, had approached
the city to buy his shares or to help him find
a buyer. The President, who along with PM
Donald Tusk, is a keen supporter of the club,
made his appeal along with the statement
that the city, although prepared to continue
to sponsor and support the club, was not in a
position to buy out Mr. Kuchar.
Lechia Gdansk have faced increasing
problems after a bright start to the season
which saw them move into their new home and
play in front of 30,000 plus crowds. Since then
performances and more crucially attendances
have fallen and Lechia narrowly stayed in the
Polish top division, the Ekstraklasa, at the end
of the season by when their home attendances
had dropped to around the 10,000 mark.
The place
to watch
the Euros.
Warsaw
Tortilla Factory
ul. Wilcza 46
tel. 022 621-8622
www.warsawtortillafactory.pl
[email protected]
SPORTSBRIEFS
Urban in the capital
Jan Urban has been installed as Legia Warszawa’s
new manager, following a season which saw
them win the Polish cup, but falter and lose the
Ekstraklasa title to Slask Wroclaw. Urban was clear
what the goal was for his reign - to regain the title.
“When I left the club two years ago, I felt I
hadn’t finished my work here. It’s great I’ve
been able to return. Now I have to make
up for last time, that’s my aim. I know that
it all depends on results. Now I need to lock
myself away for a couple of days, where
nobody will find me, and make plans,” Urban
commented.
Given the goals are the same - to win the
league and make progress in Europe - there
appears to be little cash to improve the squad
and the task will not be an easy one.
Piast and Pogon step up
Piast Gliwice and Pogon Szczecin secured promotion
to the Ekstraklasa last weekend, winning 3-0 and 2-0
respectively. It was Gliwice’s win over Zawisza Bydgoszcz that opened the door for Pogon to sneak second spot, leaving the Bydgoszcz players in despair.
Piast return to the Ekstraklasa after a two year
gap, while Pogon have been absent from the
top tier for six years.
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CLASSIFIEDS
Classifieds:Placeyourfreeadsandcommunity
newshere.Email [email protected]
Move Out Sale
KIA CEED 2009
Driver Needed Euro 2012
Mostly women’s used & new, clothing and shoes,
(xs-s, shoes: 8), jewelry, books (English & Polish),
board games (kids & adults), printer & phone almost new, perfumes - new, zippo lighters - new,
telescope and kid’s bike (7-10 y.o.) and much
more. Wilanów.
Contact - [email protected]
KIA CEED 2009, automatic transmission
(115 hp), diesel 1.6, warranty until 2016.
Mileage only 42000 km.
Great car!
Driver needed for Euro 2012 Tournament.
Seeking someone to drive me for 3 weeks.
I will provide the vehicle, just need a diver during
the 3 week tournament when I visit. Nice pay
package.
Recruitment Manager
2011 santa cruz blur lt carbon
Flat for sale
Recruitment manager, looking for short contract
role for up to 6 months.
Contact - 506496153
We are dealers in all kinds of bicycles. We sell in
bulk and to single buyers.
Flat for sale in Jelonki, Warsaw borough of
Bemowo, on 9th floor of 12-floor block; bright
and airy, 82.6 sq.m, 4 rooms, PLN 460,000
negotiable.
Contact: [email protected] or 600 366 899
Recrational / commercial large lot
APARTMENT (Sarmacka 22a) FOR RENT BY OWNER FROM JULY 1, 2012 .
MODLIN AIRPORT AREA
1/2 hour drive from Warsaw, in POMIECHOWEK,
Brody Parcele, Serocka Street 3, 3720 m2.
Old trees. Has access to all media, water, sewer,
electricity. Close to train station and shops.
3km from the Modlin Airport. Can be used for semiindustrial / recreational purposes or subdivided into 4
single family lots.
Call: 001 780433 8989, or in Poland: 660 384 603, or
email: [email protected]
Newly furnished and equipped with home appliances, the apartment (56 m2) is in a modern building with
security in the luxury “Aura Park” complex. 2 bedrooms + living room with kitchenette, spacious bathroom
with toilet and washing machine, fitted wardrobes, balcony, access to the vault - trucks / bikes. Possibility
of renting a garage under the building.
Aura Park is a luxury estate: shops, boutiques, children’s playground, childcare, 2 public schools (SP
169, SP 261, ZS 79) and plenty of greenery. Near the palace and park Wilanów, close to restaurants and
convenient public transportation (bus: 217, 422). Price: 2600 pln
Tel: 609016596
NANNY FOR YOUR BABY
Krakow Language Recruitment Fair
Courier
Experienced, responsible, creative, loving
children, warm personality, fluent American/
English. Recommendations, CPR, driver license.
Looking for full-time job. Eva.
Contact: [email protected]
Largest exhibition of its kind dedicated to
bilingual and multilingual recruitment. 5th May
Sheraton Hotel Krakow. Free Tickets: http://www.
bilingualpeople.pl/get_ticket?ad=naturalposts
Courier required for collection of goods in
Poland,and delivery in Ireland.
English books for sale
Flat to rent
Recreational / commercial large lot
90 plus books in English for sale as a lot.
Contact email: [email protected]
240 sq m part-furnished top (4th) floor apartment
available for rent. 3/4 bedrooms, living room,
dining area, kitchen, bathroom. 5 mins to tube
station. Spacious and quiet. PLN 4,500 per
calendar month.
MODLIN. 1/2hr drive from Warsaw, in
POMIECHOWEK, 3,3720 m2. Old trees. Access to
all media. Close to train/shops. Can be used for
commercial, recreational or split into 4 family lots
Call: 001 780433 8989, or in Poland, after March
29, 2012 : 660 384 603, or email:
[email protected]
Elliott Verner
Contact - 609016596
for further details
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COmmuNITYNEWS
CommunityGroups:Placefreelistingsfor
yourcommunitygroupshere.Email [email protected]
International community for Warsaw’s Expats
Meeting with Polish language! :)
The English Speakers’ Club
Be cordially invited to join Warsaw Entertain - a
networking group which brings foreigners and local
people together in order to have fun while participating
in social events and meeting up with new people
in Warsaw. We organize events or just bring people
together.
Be cordially invited to this unique Polish language event
on Saturday March 31, 11 am where Warsaw Entertain
will present you with an innovative e-learning platform.
You will be given access to one online lesson at the
event, free of charge. Additionally, we invite you for an
outdoor “SEARCHING FOR A SPRING” lesson.
University Library
ul. Dobra 56/66, Warsaw
level -1 !!! :-)room 13
password: Warsaw Entertain
The next meeting of the English Speakers’ Club
will be on Friday 24.02.12 at Quo Vadis, PLac
Narutowicza 8 from 8pm-11pm. ‘A sociable
evening!’
Murdo MacLeod: [email protected]
Poznan International Ladies Club
C of E Additional Service
Free conversation lessons
Meetings on the first Wednesday of the month
(September - June)
Andersia Hotel, Restaurant Mosaica, 9:30 AM
Continental breakfast (cost 30 zl)
Social time and information about upcoming
activities
http://pilc-poznan.pl
The Church of England in Poland is running an
additional service, led by Father Felix, at 4pm each
Sunday, except the third Sunday of the month, for
the period between now and the beginning of Lent.
Further extension of this service will depend on
popular demand. All are welcome.
Place: Res Sacra Miser Chapel, ul. Krakowskie
Przedmiescie 62, Warsaw.
Free conversation lessons take place at KLUB
DIALOGU, Krakowskie Przedmieście 13/156
(entrance from Tokarzewskiego) every Saturday at
11:00 am and 12:10 pm.
Please call: 22-498-1010
or email us: [email protected] if you are interested
Church of England in Poland
The Sikh Community
Role Playing Game in Warsaw
We welcome Anglicans, Episcopalians and all others
interested, to celebrate the Eucharist every Sunday
morning at 10.30 am. Join us for light refreshments
after the service to learn more about the activities
of our church.
Place: Res Sacra Miser Chapel, ul. Krakowskie
Przedmiescie 62, Warsaw.
The Sikh Community of Warsaw meets each Sunday
at the Sikh Gurudwara in Rashyn, Ul Na Skraju
56. All are welcome. Kirtan starts at midday and
langar is served after the Bhog at about 1400. For
more information contact 22 868 4541. The Sikh
faith is about equality, honesty and standing up
to oppression. Anyone visiting the Guru’s house is
welcome, in return for due respect and consideration
of the Sikh faith.
International English-speaking group in Warsaw,
mostly foreign professionals, play tabletop
Dungeons & Dragons fortnightly. No experience
necessary but fluent English proficiency is
required. Have a good time. Play some games.
Meet new friends. Open your imagination. More
info: Facebook group: http://tiny.cc/zaffa or
CreativeCowboy[at]yahoo[dot]com
Poland Tartan Army
HASH HOUSE HARRIERS
International Women’s Group
A new Poland Tartan Army Facebook group
has been created. If you are a fan of Scottish
football and our national team please
join the group by visiting Facebook and
conducting a search for Poland Tartan Army.
If anyone, who is not a part of Facebook,
is interested in this idea then please email
[email protected] to register your interest.
We are a Polish and Expat social group who organise a
walk/run in a forest, park or around the city, followed by
a few beers (or whatever takes your fancy!). We meet at
the Marriott hotel on alternate Saturdays at 2pm. “Hash
House Harriers” is an international group, which was
originally established in Malaysia 70 years ago.
All are welcome. For details, call Martin at 502-052-958.
Email [email protected] or www.warsawhash.pl
Meetings are held twice a month on the SECOND
Monday at 10.30 (for location see our newsletter
or website) and on the FOURTH Monday of the
month at Moulin Rouge restaurant located in
the Zlote Tarasy Shopping Mall (ul. Zlota 59) from
10:00 - 11:00.
For more information see www.iwgwarsaw.eu or
contact us at [email protected]
International Rotary Club
Gospel Baptist Church
GAA in Warsaw
International Rotary Club - Warszawa Wilanow is
the only English speaking Rotary Club in Warsaw.
Visiting Rotarians are warmly welcomed
to join the weekly meetings held at the
Polonia Palace Hotel, Al. Jerozolimskie 45.
Tuesday’s at 12:00, except the last Tuesday
of each month when the meeting is at 19:00.
For more information: +48 601 897 731
Services are held in Polish and English
languages: Sun. 11:00, Thurs. 19:00. For more
information contact: Pastor Paul Sock, mob.
0500-270-990, e-mail: [email protected]
www.gbc-ekb.com.
Cumann Warszawa.Poland’s first and only GAA
club is up and running and is looking for players
of all levels, all nationalities and both sexes. We
offer weekly training, competitive games and
regular social events as well as fresh oranges at
half time.
Contact Eoin at 0518-425-587 or
[email protected]
For further details feel free to contact Barbara by
emailing: [email protected]

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