Priest’s murderer dies

3rd July 2009

One of the men accused of ‘instigating and directing’ the murder of Solidarity priest Father Jerzy Popieluszko has died at the age of 82.

One of the men accused of ‘instigating and directing’ the murder of Solidarity priest Father Jerzy Popieluszko has died at the age of 82. General Zenon Platek, a former secret policeman who was head of Department IV of the communist-era security service (SB), which was responsible for spying against the Church, died last week after a long illness. In 1990 he was arrested along with another SB officer for murdering Popieluszko, who had been kidnapped, tortured and then killed, his body later being dumped in a river. Both Platek and his colleague we ...