Breakthrough in "Ambulances of Death" case as paramedic comes clean

The Łódź-based Prosecutor of Appeal announced his intention to clarify the circumstances of deaths of around 5,000 patients of the Łódź emergency services. Yesterday the court has arrested a former paramedic accused of killing two patients and one attempted murder. The paramedic confessed to murdering his patients using a drug called Pavulon. In return for the information concerning deaths of his patients he received money from funeral houses. Thirty-four year old Andrzej N., was disciplinarily sacked last year for being under the influence of alcohol while on duty. The Prosecutor has placed five charges against him: two murders, an attempted murder, accepting a bribe of at least zł. 30,000, in return for information concerning the deaths, and forging prescriptions for Pavulon. Andrzej N. now faces a trial that no doubt with watched closely by the media and a likely life sentence at the end of it. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 1; Rzeczpospolita, pp. A1, A5; www.polskieradio.pl) A.K.