Anti-eviction Lepper confronts bailiff outside Warsaw woman's apartment

In a practical demonstration of his opposition to evictions, Samoobrona leader Andrzej Lepper yesterday joined Polish Socialist Party (PPS) member Piotr Ikonowicz and other Samoobrona and PPS members in preventing a single mother from being thrown out of her apartment. The apartment in Warsaw's Zelazna Street is owned by Polish State Railways (PKP), and the woman had shared it with her aunt and uncle, who worked for PKP as a doctor. However, after his death PKP told the woman she no longer had the right to live in the apartment, and ordered her to move out. The bailiff who yesterday came to evict her agreed to cancel the order, after he was confronted by a noisy crowd of 20 people blocking the entrance to the apartment. Among them was Miller, who shouted, "You should be ashamed of your profession! You're no better than a hooligan! Do you really mean to turn a woman with a child out into the street?" (Rzeczpospolita, p. A3) A.Z.