Two charged in connection with Dublin garbage truck death
PR dla Zagranicy
Nick Hodge
09.09.2013 13:47
Two Polish citizens have been charged with assault in connection with the death of a Polish homeless man who was crushed to death in a garbage truck in Dublin last month.
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Surveillance footage was studied by police after a post mortem on Henryk Piotrowski indicated that the 43-year-old Pole had suffered injuries prior to the fatal blows in the garbage truck on 23 August.
A man and a woman, both homeless themselves, were arrested after being identified on the basis of the footage.
Police have stressed that the pair are not being charged with murder. It is understood that Piotrowski clambered into a refuse bin following the altercation with the two assault suspects. The refuse bin was later collected by a garbage truck.
Immigrant Piotrowski had been arrested some 90 times since 2009 after work dried up in the Irish construction industry, as Ireland was gripped by recession. He had drifted into alcoholism, and most of the recent arrests were as a result of the theft of alcohol.
Approximately 120,000 Polish citizens are currently resident in Ireland, but many have struggled to find steady employment since the onset of the recession. (nh)
Source: Irish Central