Polish pm vows to bring perpetrators to justice over pollution of river

Mateusz Morawiecki, the Polish prime minister, said on Thursday that the pollution of the Oder River was a scandal and that everything would be done to explain the matter and bring the culprits to justice.

The Environmental Protection Inspectorate WIOS in Wroclaw West, southern Poland has told the local prosecutor of an ecological disaster that has hit the Oder, Poland's second longest river. Tonnes of dead fish have been washed up along with other animals such as beavers.

Since the first reports came in from anglers in late July, the Wroclaw branch of WIOS has been investigating the matter of dead fish in the Oder.

In a Facebook post, Morawiecki wrote that care for the environment and Poland's waters was particularly important at a time of climate change and we will do everything for the case to be investigated, clarified and the guilty severely punished. The prime minister said that Deputy Infrastructure Minister Grzegorz Witkowski and the President of Polish Waters Przemyslaw Daca would travel to the affected region on Thursday.

I discussed the matter with Infrastructure PAP Minister Marek Grobarczyk. The issue is being worked on by officers of the Chief Inspector of Environmental Protection at the same time, giving him the assurance that all state services would be acting with the utmost intensity on the case.