[1] Itoya worked as a street vendor at an open-air market in the Praga district of Warsaw selling counterfeit shoes.
[1] 32 immigrant traders were rounded up and arrested, including 29 Nigerians, one Cameroonian, one Guinean and one Indian.
[1] The exact reason for the lethal shot being fired is unclear: police sources said that it was an accident and took place during a riot that started when vendors were checked for documents and thus Itoya was being arrested; according to witness' accounts the riot only started after the police opened fire.
[1] Itoya's widow, Monika Pacak-Itoya, sought compensation from the police authorities.
[7] Artur Brzeziński, the policeman who killed Itoya,[9] was not suspended from duty nor charged with any crime.