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Global Dispatches: Poland—Tragic Self-Immolation Shakes Up Election Campaign

On Friday, a 50-year-old former employee of Poland’s Central Bureau of Investigation taped a letter addressed to the prime minister to a park bench, doused himself in solvent and set himself alight.
Global Dispatches: Poland—Tragic Self-Immolation Shakes Up Election Campaign
Tom Ozimek
Tom Ozimek
Reporter
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<a><img src="https://www.theepochtimes.com/assets/uploads/2015/09/125233427.jpg" alt="(L to R) Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip and their Lithuanian counterpart Andrius Kubilius arrive on Sept. 16, 2011 for the opening session of the annual Riga Conference. ( Ilmars Znotins/AFP/Getty Images)" title="(L to R) Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip and their Lithuanian counterpart Andrius Kubilius arrive on Sept. 16, 2011 for the opening session of the annual Riga Conference. ( Ilmars Znotins/AFP/Getty Images)" width="320" class="size-medium wp-image-1797128"/></a>
(L to R) Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansip and their Lithuanian counterpart Andrius Kubilius arrive on Sept. 16, 2011 for the opening session of the annual Riga Conference. ( Ilmars Znotins/AFP/Getty Images)
Tom Ozimek
Tom Ozimek
Reporter
Tom Ozimek is a senior reporter for The Epoch Times. He has a broad background in journalism, deposit insurance, marketing and communications, and adult education.
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