Will Szczecin take German investor to court?

The case relates to an agreement which was signed between the President of Szczecin in 1998, Bartłomiej Sochański of the Freedom Union (UW) and a German company Euroinvest Saller on the sale of land to build a hypermarket. Several months after signing the contract, when the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) came to power, the agreement was annulled, as the new city management claimed that there was no permission to begin construction from the Interior Ministry. The German investor began legal proceedings against the city and won the case in December last year, and was granted zł. 9.5 million in compensation plus interest. PO and PiS members are trying to find out who is to blame for such a huge loss of funds. The current President of Szczecin, Marian Jurczyk, is considering taking the case against the German investor to the Strasbourg Tribunal. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A 5) A.K.