Leftist deputies accuse the police of secretly monitoring their closed meeting

Yesterday's session of the Sejm Interior Commission featured a fierce confrontation between Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) representatives on one side and Interior Minister Marek Biernacki and the heads of Police on the other. The SLD deputies said the police monitored their closed meeting held on May 21 at the Defense Ministry shooting range. Police representatives said they suspected a member of the Pruszkow mafia was present at the meeting, but the policemen did not enter the scene or make any recordings. "We prosecute criminals, not politicians," argued Biernacki in support of the police. However, SLD says it has evidence of police presence in the form of photographs. (Zycie, p.1) P.J.