Thousands of demonstrators gathered on the streets of Lodz on Monday to protest against the shooting deaths of two people
Published:
11 May 2004 y., Tuesday
Thousands of demonstrators gathered on the streets of Lodz on Monday to protest against the shooting deaths of two people during an end-of-year campus riot on the weekend.
An investigation has revealed that police fired lead-tipped bullets into the crowd instead of rubber bullets. Rubber bullets are similar in shape to shotgun shells and closely resemble lead-tipped bullets.
Critics say the Lodz police were poorly prepared to handle the riot, in which 70 were injured and 19 arrested, and that Poland should revamp its police training methods to ensure such mistakes are never repeated.
Police admitted on Sunday that they had mistakenly fired live ammunition, instead of rubber bullets, to quell the riot at a university on Saturday night.
A 19-year-old male student and a 23-year-old woman were killed.
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