2 court in Hamburg on Thursday convicted a 93-year old German man of helping to murder 5,232 prisoners, many of them Jewish, at a Nazi concentration camp in World War Two and handed him a suspended two-year sentence.
In one of the last cases against Nazi-era crimes, Bruno D. was an SS guard in the Stutthof concentration camp near Gdańsk, in what is today Poland, and found guilty of being involved in killings between August 1944 and April 1945. He had acknowledged his presence at the camp but argued that did not amount to guilt.
As he was only 17 or 18 years old at the time of the crimes, he was subject to youth sentencing guidelines. Under German rules for court cases, the suspect’s full name is not published.
Source – Polskie Radio
Consumer sentiment in Poland has picked up in July in a third straight month of improvement after a severe slump earlier this year, the country’s Central Statistical Office has reported.
As the economy emerges from the coronavirus shock, the state-run statistics agency said its Current Consumer Confidence Index, which describes current trends in personal consumption, improved by 6 points from June, while remaining in negative territory.
Polish consumers were more positive about the prospects of the economy than a month earlier, and their evaluation of their own financial condition also improved from June. In April, consumer sentiment in Poland had plunged to its lowest level since 2004 amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Source – Polskie Radio, stat.gov.pl
New figures released by the BBC this week show that its news service it is reaching a larger global audience than ever before.
The figures show that 438 million people from around the world viewed BBC news each week between March 2019 and March 2020 with digital services surpassing syndicated TV and radio in terms of popularity for the first time. The data also shows that India, the United States, Nigeria and Kenya are the biggest international markets.
The BBC aims to be reaching 500 million people a week by 2022.
Source – BBC News
The Polish health agency Sanepid is trying to trace 200 party-goers who attended a catamaran cruise event on a rented boat in the Bay of Gdańsk on the 12th July.
After the event, called the Big Boat Party, a number of attendees were confirmed to be infected with the coronavirus. Of some concerns is the fact that participants of the event came from all over Poland and some tickets were sold on by the original purchasers, making tracing people a challenge.
Sanepid are continuing in their attempts to trace the attendees to avoid spreading the outbreak further and have so far quarantined 16 participants from Gdynia and a further 18 from Gdańsk.
Source – dziennikbaltycki.pl
Weather
Today will be a mostly cloudy day, brightening a little in the afternoon, with a gentle breeze and temperatures reaching 21 degrees centigrade (70 degrees Fahrenheit) during the day, dropping to 12 degrees centigrade overnight. There will be a risk of rain showers in the late afternoon and evening. Saturday will bring sunny intervals in a gentle breeze with temperatures again reaching 21 degrees centigrade during the day in a light breeze, and a pleasant 15 degrees overnight.
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