Investigating officers will not have the power to detain dangerous criminials by mid-February, writes Rzeczpospolita.
Press reviewed by Agnieszka Bielawska
The prosecution is helpless, alarms Rzeczpospolita. Why? Because the Lower House will definitely fail to meet the deadline to change the regulations of the penal law. The amendments were demanded by the Constitutional Tribunal, which ruled that the present regulations are not defined and allow too much freedom of action for the prosecution. However, the lagging behind with the legislative work of the Lower House turns the tables and as of February, the investigating officers will not have the power to detain dangerous criminals. Rzeczpospolita quotes one of the prosecutors; ‘all the power that I have now is to send a kind summons to the mafia boss asking him to see me at my office.’
Fourteen thousand victims of the flu in Poland alarms Dziennik. According to the state sanitary inspectorate, this is just the beginning of a serious problem. A new mutation of the virus, which has already caused havoc in Europe, is nearing Poland. The virus is very dangerous, it causes high fever and if not treated well can result in serious complications. Specialists say that Poland is not threatened with an epidemic, but Dziennik writes pharmacies all over the country are at the moment the most besieged shops.
The same daily writes about the setting up of a shelter for exotic animals called Egzotarium. Apparently, Poles have succumbed to the fashion of bringing pets from the exotic travels that are so popular now. However, only a few of those who decide to domesticate a python, iguanas, tarantulas or scorpions have a good idea how to deal with these pets. The result is, writes Dziennik, that the streets of Polish cities, rivers and forests are more and more often haunted with species that definitely do not belong to this geographical position. Fire brigades are continuously alarmed with calls which sound as a hoax but prove to be reality, like the one in Warsaw where an old lady alarmed that a crocodile had fallen out of the window. Rescue teams sent to the address found not a crocodile but a huge green iguana. The founders of the Egzotarium , which is based in the eastern city of Lublin, decided to help all the poor exotic animals and have already adopted some 40 species, which were left in boxes or baskets at the door of the shelter.
Private eyes offer their services to the needy writes the Warsaw city daily Zycie Warszawy, heralding the opening of a fair for divorcees. The idea came from Austria, known there as ‘New beginning’, it has gained quite a huge popularity. Detectives, sex therapists and companies conducting DNA testing will present their offer to those who wish to withdraw from the marriage vows. And the demand is quite impressive, writes the daily – according to the Main Statistical Office every third marriage in Poland ends in divorce. In 2007, as many as 65,000 married couples split up, which is 20,000 more that ten years ago.