“Maybe if there is a Blue Card, there should be a Green or Yellow Card for families like ours?”
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– I called the commune about garbage collection and was told that they knew my situation and I could verify the amount of the fee, because now we live with three people. I refused. Until we are sure what happened to our son, we will not make such decisions – says Krzysiek Dymiński's mother, Agnieszka.
There has been no news about my son for a year.
It was his birthday recently. Seventeenth.
The “system” also seemed to be demanding it. Or maybe he didn't notice the tragedy of this family? ZUS transfers every month 800 plus for the child. In the electronic school register, parents see that their son is unclassified. “Because of the absence”.
Ping, ping… more news.
Someone saw a boy like Krzysiek again. The parents rush to a village located somewhere between Łódź and Warsaw.
They can no longer find the person who was seen.
Then another signal from the same town. The father and his older son are going for the second time.
He has been gone for 365 days, but people from all over Poland still call.
They also called when Daniel Dymiński fished out the body. They asked what the caught one looked like. He did not know. He only knew that it was not his son.
Krzysztof DymińskiFamily archive
Krzysiek's father gets on a boat every weekend. He pierces the reeds along the banks with his bare feet, and dives with cameras that can even see the inscriptions on yogurt packaging and bottles thrown into the river underwater.
He swims and stabs the coastal rushes because, as the police say, he swims in the middle of the Vistula.
– The police said to trust them, that they are using all resources and means. But, you know, it doesn't look like that when whole hosts of people are looking for your child day and night – admits Agnieszka Dymińska.
First, Krzysiek's parents hoped that their son would return for Children's Day, then for Father's Day, and maybe for his father's name day in July. Then, for the beginning of the school year in September. It was weeks ago that the 17-year-old's father, Daniel Dymiński, was combing the bottom of the Vistula with sonar in search of his son. Winter came and swimming had to be stopped. After the New Year, he bought a boat and waited for spring, for warmer days, for the thaw. He sailed every weekend. In March, a special group of divers, who worked on behalf of the Dymiński family, recovered the body. A few days later, Daniel and his friend caught the second one.
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