A driver drove his car into people at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany. The Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs reacted to the granting of asylum to Marcin Romanowski by the Hungarian authorities. President Andrzej Duda signed an act introducing changes to health insurance premiums. Here are five things to know on Saturday, December 21.
1. Attack in Magdeburg
A driver drove his car into people at a Christmas market in Magdeburg, Germany. As a result of this attack, two people were killed and nearly 70 were injured.
The perpetrator was arrested immediately after the attack – a 50-year-old man born in Saudi Arabia. The Prime Minister of Saxony-Anhalt announced that he is a doctor and that he acted alone. The perpetrator came to German in 2006, he worked legally and had a permanent work permit.
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The car in which the attacker attacked fair participants in MagdeburgFILIP SINGER/PAP/EPA
2. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs reacts to Hungary's decision in the Romanowski case
Marcin Romanowski is staying at Hungarywhere he received asylum. Therefore, to Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs The Hungarian ambassador was summoned on Friday. The meeting lasted only 10 minutes. The spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Paweł Wroński, announced that the ambassador had been handed a protest note.
Wroński added that the Polish ambassador to Hungary, Sebastian Kęciek, was summoned to the country for “indefinite consultations”.
– Summoning the Polish ambassador in Budapest to Poland for consultations means that there will be no Polish ambassador in Budapest – he said.
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3. Changes in health insurance premiums
President Andrzej Duda signed an amendment abolishing the obligation to calculate health insurance contributions on disposal fixed assets. The amendment also lowers the minimum basis for calculating contributions paid by entrepreneurs.
The new regulations are to apply from 2025.
4. Resumption of the search for the plane
The Malaysian government has agreed to resume the search for Malaysia Airlines plane MH370, which disappeared ten years ago, Reuters reported.
The disappearance of a passenger Boeing with 239 people on board is “one of the greatest mysteries in the history of aviation.”
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5. A man who was escorted by the police has died
A man who was escorted by the police for questioning has died. The cause of death was an extensive neck wound. The police and the prosecutor's office conducted operations in the “Solidarności” avenue near the Wileński Railway Station.
– According to my information, the man was in handcuffs. He had an extensive neck wound. When the emergency medical team arrived, it was too late to save him. The man died as a result of bleeding to death. The policemen were to testify that the man had injured himself with the handcuffs he was in, Artur Węgrzynowicz, a reporter for tvnwarszawa.pl, found out.
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