LONDON (ENGLAND)
The Tablet
Nov. 7, 2019
By Jonathan Luxmoore
Father Jerzy Popieluszko was killed in 1984 after opposing his homeland’s authoritarian government.
Prominent Polish Catholics have condemned a Warsaw court decision to drop charges against a group of former secret police agents, who were accused of planting weapons and explosives on the Solidarity martyr, Fr Jerzy Popieluszko, a year before his murder in 1984.
“It’s scandalous and a great source of shame that the guilty are again avoiding punishment”, Piotr Dmitrowicz, a director of Warsaw’s newly opened John Paul II Museum, told Poland’s Catholic Information Agency (KAI).
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