Samoobrona trade union leader Lepper says 83 injured police "is just notenough"

83 police officers and five civilians were injured when police began to remove a roadblock in Bartoszyce. "The regional prosecutor decided that the attackers were extremely brutal and aggressive," said Olsztyn District Prosecutor Stanislaw Roszkowski. He added that as far as he knows the attackers were not the farmers blocking the road. After the demonstration, leaders of farmers' trade unions demanded dissolution of Parliament and early elections. Representatives of coalition partners, Solidarity Election Action (AWS) and Freedom Union (UW), said the turmoil caused by "Samoobrona" Trade Union can no longer be tolerated. Samoobrona leader Andrzej Lepper commented that 83 injured police "is just not enough." (Rzeczpospolita, Aug. 21-22, page B3)