Firecracker

Buzau police have discovered a man who was offering for sale over 1,300 firecrackers, the pyrotechnic materials being confiscated and the man placed under criminal investigation for infringing the explosive materials regime, a press release of the Romanian General Police Inspectorate (IGPR) remitted on Saturday to AGERPRES informs.

Police in Warsaw has detained at least 280 people after a rally marking Poland's Independence Day.

As many as 47 people have been injured, German weekly Der Spiegel reports.

Clashes began between participants and the police on Tuesday evening as some of the demonstrators in the crow, reportedly nationalists, started hurling stones and firecrackers at security officers.

A 43-year-old man was to face a prosecutor on Thursday in Amaliada, in the Peloponnese, on charges of trading in illegally acquired artifacts after a fragment of an clay sculpture believed to date to the 4th or 3rd century BC was found in his possession.

A raid on the suspect’s home, in the village of Tragano, also turned up a metal detector and 85 firecrackers.

An American tourist who was injured by a large firecracker explosion on the island of Santorini during celebrations for Greek Orthodox Easter in April has been discharged from the hospital on Crete where she spent several days in critical condition and underwent lifesaving abdominal surgery.

Doctors at the University Hospital of Iraklio on Crete on Wednesday appeared confident that a 51-year-old American tourist being treated in intensive care after suffering serious injuries from a powerful firecracker blast on Saturday is showing signs of improvement.

A 51-year-old American woman who suffered serious stomach injuries during Easter celebrations on Saturday night when a large firecracker was thrown into a church courtyard on the island of Santorini remained in critical condition on Tuesday in the intensive-care unit of a hospital in Iraklio, Crete, but doctors said her condition was improving.

One Cretan man was killed, a man from central Greece suffered hand injuries and an American visiting Santorini was hospitalized in an intensive care unit following over-exuberant Easter celebrations in various parts of the country.