Two police, two gangsters injured in shoot-out in holiday town of Spala

Anti-terrorist police had a nasty surprise when they made an attempt to arrest gangsters in the Central Sport Center in Spala, about 100 kilometers south of Warsaw. The whole event started on Friday at 7 p.m. after police received information that a dangerous group of gangsters were meeting in the holiday town. Police officers moved in to make arrests, but the criminals were not willing to give themselves up and first got in their cars and ran over two police officers in a failed bid to escape. Realizing they were surrounded, the men ran back into the building and opened fire on the police. Very quickly the anti-terrorist unit returned fire injuring 30-year old Grzegorz B. and 30-year old Przemyslaw K. "Bullets were flying everywhere. You could hear them round by round," said an anonymous eye-witness. It took just over ten minutes to arrest the gangsters who had spread themselves across the sports complex. "We knew that this was one of the most dangerous organized gangs in the country, but we did not expect the event to be marked by such violence," said Jaroslaw Berger, the Lodz police spokesman. Police officers arrested the ten men from Radom and Lodz who are accused of multiple rape, assault and kidnapping. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 1) M.M.