Tons of fish have already been fished out of the waters. The first pollution signals were recorded at the end of July, but the Polish Prime Minister claims to have been informed of the situation “on August 9 or 10”.
The Polish police on Saturday offered a reward of 210,000 euros, Saturday August 13, to find the author of serious pollution of the Oder river which flows at the Polish-German border. Tons of dead fish have been fished out of the waterway for several days, while local people are told to stay away from its waters. “The Commander-in-Chief of Police today set a reward of one million zlotys to help uncover the perpetrators of this environmental disaster,” Deputy Interior Minister Maciej Wasik told reporters.
The Polish nationalist-populist government has found itself under fire in recent days, both in Poland and in Germany, for not having reacted sooner to this disaster, described on Friday as an “ecological disaster” by the Minister of the German Environment, Steffi Lemke.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki admitted on Saturday that he had been informed of the situation “on August 9 or 10”, when the first signals of pollution were recorded at the end of July. “Obviously I learned this too late. The services…