Attorney charged with aiding and abetting gangsters in courtroom shootout

According to unofficial sources close to the Justice Ministry, the Jelenia Gora public prosecutor has evidence that Marek G., an attorney from Jelenia Gora, helped his clients escape from armed police during a court hearing that took place in the middle of March of this year and resulted in a shootout. The attorney allegedly aided and abetted the defendents when he obtained weapons for them and persuaded them to take hostages in an attempt to flee from the authorities. Eyewitnesses to the event say that just seconds before the defendents began to threaten those in the courtroom, Mariusz M., the main defendant in the case, gave a sign to Marek G. to leave the room. Jelenia Gora's public prosecutor pressed charges against Marek G. on Thursday. (Gazeta Wyborcza, Dec. 2-3, p.3)