Bydgoszcz chief prosecutor dismissed for botched handling of robbery case

The chief prosecutor in Bydgoszcz-Polnoc Jaroslaw Bittner was fired after his subordinate released two young boys who robbed a man. The boys were charged with a less serious offense than the robbery with a deadly weapon they committed and were let go. The boys killed a person a few days later. "Our officers had to catch the same robbers again and they recognized them at once," said police officer Waldemar Krzyzanowski. "We made a really bad mistake," said the regional prosecutor's office spokesperson Jan Bednarek. Bittner and his assistant Malgorzata Krzyzanowska lost their jobs due to the error in judgement. (Gazeta Wyborcza, page 1) M.M.