What happened to Jolanta Brzeska? It's been ten years since the investigators began the search for answers. Her friends and colleagues claim she was murdered after making enemies with property developers. The prosecutor's office has been issuing further opinions, questioning witnesses and collecting evidence. Unfortunately, however, breakthrough is nowhere to be seen.
Jolanta Brzeska lived with her family in a tenement house at Nabielaka 9 street in Warsaw. In 2006, the ownership was granted to three heirs to the building's former owners and Warsaw's well-known property claims dealer Marek M. After numerous rent increases, the tenants started going into ever-deeper debts. They were also harassed and threatened with eviction. As a consequence, Brzeska, together with other families, established the Warsaw Tenants' Association.
On March 1, 2011, Jolanta Brzeska left her apartment and never returned. Later that day, a burnt body of a woman was found in Kabaty Woods in southern Warsaw. Autopsy confirmed that the body belonged to Jolanta Brzeska.
The first investigation into the activist's death was discontinued in 2013 due to failure to identify perpetrators. The investigators said at the time that there was evidence pointing at the involvement of the third parties, but, however unlikely, they couldn't categorically exclude suicide.
In 2016, the investigation into the death of Jolanta Brzeska was relaunched on the order of the Prosecutor General Zbigniew Ziobro. The case was referred to the Regional Prosecutor's Office in Gdańsk. According to Polish Press Agency (PAP), along the course of the new inquiry so far, 50 expert opinions have been issued, 230 witnesses have been questioned and over 40 volumes of case files have been gathered. Not a single person, however, has yet been charged.
Źródło: TVN24 News in English, PAP
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