source: trojmiasto.pl, 25 October 2008

On Friday 24 October 2008, at about 23:00 in front of the Grand Hotel in Sopot on the northern coast of Poland, some US-Americans beat up a taxi driver. It turned out that they are soldiers who recently arrived in Gdynia . They were detained by the military police.

According to Pawel, a colleague of the victim, a group of US-Americans wanted to enter a taxi to go from Sopot to Gdynia. They couldn’t communicate with the taxi driver, who didn’t speak any foreign languages. A struggle started.

The taxi driver was kicked and fell down. His head hit the ground. The soldiers then left the scene. Pawel arrived a moment later. Doctors helped the victim. He was taken by ambulance to a hospital in Gdynia, where he was diagnosed to have concussion.

Pawel said that the whole group of US-Americans was detained by military police from Gdynia. The officer in charge of the military police didn’t want to comment on the incident and sent us to the police.

The police claim that they haven’t received any requests related to the incident, so for them, the incident doesn’t exist, so they sent us to the military police.

It’s unofficially stated that the affair is to be hushed up in order not to upset polish-us-american relations.

The only organisation which admits that the beating took place is that where the victim works, but it itself does not know the details of the incident.