Police blunder lay behind the weekend's tragic events in Łódź

Łódź saw thousands of students marching yesterday at noon through the city's main streets to show solidarity with the victims. Gazeta Wyborcza unofficially discovered that the live ammunition was handed out by mistake by the Łódź traffic police, as live and so-called rubber bullets have also an identical shape. "There is no justification for what happened," said Interior Minister Ryszard Kalisz, who dismissed the Łódź Region Chief of Police, Jacek Staniecki. Earlier on, Staniecki accepted the resignation of both the Chief and Deputy Chief of Łódź City Police. Polish Social Democracy (SDPL) demanded the resignation of Ryszard Kalisz, as they believe that the Ministry unsuitably reacted to the latest events. (Gazeta Wyborcza, pp. 1, 2, 4) D.W.