A series of mysterious cuts on trees. They appeared at night

The police are looking for the perpetrator or perpetrators of cutting down 29 ancient trees on one of the county roads in Klimy near Iława. The cuts were made with a saw, at night. They were made by professionals. Because the trees could have fallen on the road at any moment, they had to be cut down. Questions abound about who did it and for what purpose.

The incident occurred on the night from Friday to Saturday, when 29 trees were cut down on one of the county roads near Iława. The residents of the small Klim in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship did not expect such a change in the landscape.

- It's an image beyond comment - says one of the residents.

At night, chainsaws could be heard operating in the vicinity of the incident, but in the morning the trees were still standing.

When the services were called to the scene, there was no other option but to finish what someone had started. As Staff Sergeant Joanna Kwiatkowska says, "the crisis team decided to cut down the trees because they posed a threat to drivers and pedestrians."

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More than 25 hundred-year-old poplars and 4 equally old maples were cut down. All of the trees affected grew on a section of the county road that was about a kilometer long and led to the commune seat in Kisielice.

Kisielice councillor Paweł Kulczyk suspects that the crime was not committed by one person, but by an "organised group".

The Iława District Officer points out that "the perpetrators must have been professionals in felling trees" because the cuts in the trees were made in such a way as to facilitate the work of the sawyers who "finally felled them".

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The answer to the question "who wanted the felling" still remains unanswered. Various theories are emerging, suspicions are cast on, among others, drivers of larger machines.

Bartosz Bielawski, the head of the Iława district, says, however: - Neither the owner of this road nor the residents reported that the trees were a nuisance.

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- It is a crime and is subject to a high penalty. The penalty for illegally removing a single tree ranges from several to several dozen thousand złoty, so if the police manage to find out who did it, the penalty could run into millions - emphasizes Krystian Komarnicki, arborist and dendrologist.