Controversy surrounds Blida's supposed suicide
According to the first official version, Blida took a gun from her closet in the bathroom and shot herself in the chest. Only a few hours later, however, the ABW disclosed that an Agency officer was with her during the tragedy. The media are speculating whether or not the ABW has revealed the details of what has really happened. According to unofficial sources, Blida quarreled with the officer and soon after two shots were fired. According to a doctor in Katowice who studied the body, the shot came from a weapon pointing directly perpendicularly to the chest. Barbara Blida was a suspect in a bribe affair in the coal sector back in the 1990s. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A1; Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 1) A.K.