Police search Rybnik reservoir; photo - PAP

As a police diving team searched a lake near the home of ex-transport minister Eugeniusz Wrobel, Monday, his son, Grzegorz W. has been detained for three months while prosecutors compile a case against him for murder.

Jacek Slawik, head prosecutor in Wrobel’s home town of Rybnik in Silesia, southern Poland, gave more details of the alleged confession of the politician's son to murdering his father last Friday.

He told reporters that Eurgeniusz Wrobel, deputy transport minister in the Law and Justice government (2005-7) was killed at his home with a knife. His body was then allegedly thrown into a nearby reservoir by his son, Grzegorz.

The prosecutor said that though the suspected murderer, detained by police last Saturday, refused to go to the scene of the crime, or the reservoir suspected of being the watery grave of the dead politician, Grzegorz W. has given a detailed description of his father’s last moments.

The 30 year-old man has refused to say whether anyone else was involved in the murder, however.

A court sat this afternoon for 45 minutes as the prosecution laid out its case against the man and he will now be under detention for three months.

Police have said that though no clear motive has been uncovered for the murder, it is believed father and son had quarrelled over finances.

A team of divers, police officers and sniffer dogs are now at the reservoir trying to retrieve the body of the murdered politician. (pg)

source: IAR