News photographer's film confiscated by police at car accident scene

According to Gazeta Wyborcza, the public prosecutor and the police broke the law after a car accident on the E40 highway on Tuesday, in which three people died and four others were badly injured. A photographer from Gazeta was forced by plainclothes officer Janusz Kuchna of the Gliwice police and public prosecutor Mariusz Bukowski to hand over the negatives of the photos he had taken at the scene. "The ban on photographing public places is illegal. Furthermore, it is illegal to confiscate a news photographer's negatives," said Pawel Biedziak, the spokesman for the police Chief Officer. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p.6)