The D.A. dropped the investigation into Jolanta Brzeska's death. In the context of the ‘reprivatisation scandal’

The Regional Prosecutor's Office in Gdańsk dismissed the investigation into the death of Jolanta Brzeska in March 2011 in the Powsin Culture Park in Warsaw. This is 1 of the louder cases related to the alleged "reprivatisation scandal". The grounds for abandonment are the deficiency of adequate data to justify the suspicion of a criminal offence.

On Monday, the Regional Prosecutor's Office in Gdańsk, Mariusz Marciniak, informed that the investigation had been dropped by a decree of 28 October 2023. – It oscillated around 3 possible versions of the event: killings; suicides and an unfortunate accident – informed.

According to the investigators, no of the above-mentioned investigative versions can be clearly and unequivocally confirmed or excluded.

– They are all probabilistically reliable, and at this phase of the procedure full and complete evidence was collected allowing a final substantive decision to be taken. The exhaustion of the evidence initiative ordered the prosecutor to issue a decision to discontinue the investigation – added prok. Marciniak.

Brzeska has been active in the left-wing Warsaw Locator Association since, by the 2006 reprivatisation decision, the flat in Warsaw's tenement house, which she and her husband and daughter occupied, obtained heirs of pre-war owners. The heir's lawyer then terminated the accommodation lease and began raising rent rates.

On 1 March 2011, a burning corpse of Jolanta Brzeska was found in Powsin Culture Park in Warsaw. The experts did not uncover mechanical injuries (except for burns) that may affect the death of the victim. However, they detected the presence of kerosene in victim clothing and soot in the lower respiratory tract of the victim. In their opinion, the presence of soot indicates that at the time of the first phase of contact with the fire Brzeska lived and breathed its atmosphere. As a origin of death, they indicated thermal shock and carbon monoxide poisoning.

In the course of the investigation, nearly 300 witnesses, any with an expert psychologist, were questioned.

– Evidence in the form of witness testimony, expert opinions of various specialities, collected papers and records of monitoring of industrial cameras does not let us to find in a clear manner the origin of arson and death of Jolanta Brzeska. The evidence collected in each of the threads is only circumstantial evidence that does not let us to settle in a way that does not rise doubts as to whether there has been a murder, suicide or an unfortunate accident— prox. Marciniak.

According to the prosecutor, the findings proving the activity of the victim in the Warsaw Locator Association do not give emergence to the presumption that Jolanta Brzeska was so the victim of a homicide, e.g. as a consequence of a conflict with those dealing with the reprivatization of premises in Warsaw.

The evidence collected, according to the prosecutor's office, is besides not adequate to consider that Brzeński's death was caused by an unfortunate accident or suicide.

– The prosecutor considered that despite many evidence activities, it is not possible to find the unquestionable facts and establish one, unquestionable version of the event. On the another hand, it is legitimate to say that there is no adequate evidence to justify the suspicion of a crime and, for this reason, the D.A. has dropped its investigation into the case – informed prok. Marciniak. He added that the cancellation of the investigation was not a final decision, and that if fresh evidence appeared, it would be verified.

The investigation of the death of Brzeska territory Prosecutor's Office Warsaw-Mokotów began on 3 March 2011. They were later led by the territory Attorney's Office in Warsaw. In 2016, the previously discontinued investigation went to the Regional Prosecutor's Office in Gdańsk.

The beneficiaries of the many controversy of reprivatisation in Warsaw included Hanna Gronkiewicz- Waltz.

(PAP)/work. FA

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