Word: popieluszko
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...amassed 17 volumes of evidence, 79 exhibits, 17 videocassettes and 13 tape recordings. But after 22 days of testimony, State Prosecutor Leszek Pietrasinski was no closer to providing the answer to the question that troubles many Poles about the trial in the Torun courtroom: Who really ordered Father Jerzy Popieluszko's death? The trial entered its final days last week as Pietrasinski gave his summation in the trial of the four secret-police officers charged in the abduction and murder of Popieluszko. The bespectacled prosecutor unleashed an almost theatrical fury upon the confessed leader of the priest's killers, former...
...combination of severe beating, shock, strangulation by the nylon cord with which he had been trussed and from his inability to expel the blood and vomit that flooded through his respiratory system after the attack. Dispassionately, Byrdy held up one of the two rolls of stained gauze that Popieluszko's attackers had forced into their victim's mouth...
...admit to having beaten and bound the priest. Although in his testimony he made no attempt to conceal his own part in the kidnaping and killing, Piotrowski has based his hope to escape the death sentence on the earlier autopsy conclusion that the priest had strangled on his bonds. Popieluszko was trussed by Piotrowski's assistants, co-defendants and former secret police officers Leszek Pekala and Waldemar Chmielewski. By suggesting that the savage beating contributed to Popieluszko's death, Byrdy may have destroyed Piotrowski's only defense...
Just one day after Byrdy's testimony was completed, the court was subjected to an even more wrenching session. For 40 minutes, judges, lawyers and spectators watched a black-and-white videotape showing Popieluszko's body moments after it was pulled from the reservoir. The effect of the videotape upon the defendants was clear: Pekala cried openly; Chmielewski bowed his head; and, for his part, Piotrowski appeared to be taking deep breaths. Only the fourth defendant, former Secret Police Colonel Adam Pietruszka, remained impassive...
...effect of sleeping pills, he had failed to realize the significance of the fact that a ministry car had been spotted in the city of Bydgoszcz the night of the priest's death. Platek also insisted that the date on a travel permit that Piotrowski had used the night Popieluszko was killed had been altered before it was turned over as evidence in the Interior Ministry's investigation of the crime...