Students at Lodz university were celebrating end of term on Saturday night when their campus was invaded by one hundred hooligans from the local firm Widzew Lodz. The hooligans ran amok among the students, throwing bricks, stones, bottles and metal rods.

Riot police arrived on the scene and began firing rubber bullets to disperse the hooligans. In the mayhem, police sources claim that 25 real bullets were mixed in with the rubber-coated ones and six were fired, resulting in the death of a 19-year old student and three serious injuries, including a 23-year old woman who has been shot in the head. 70 others have been injured.

Three days of mourning have been declared and the local police chief and his deputy have resigned.

I was in Warsaw ten days ago for the anti-WEF demonstrations that - in spite of the usual media hype - passed off without incident.

This is an appalling tragedy that deserves to be further investigated when more facts become known.