Garbage Dump Fire Heats Up Polish Politics Before Election
An illegal dump near Warsaw.
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A fire raging in a garbage dump in western Poland has ignited a political blame game, three months before the country is due to hold a tightly contested election.
Opposition leader Donald Tusk said the government has overseen a surge in imports of trash into Poland, fueling the creation of illegal dumps. He said the “stench of corruption” was in the air near Zielona Gora, where a hall storing trash and chemicals caught fire on Saturday.