Dramatic scenes took place in Oleshnika, one of the stores of the popular Żabka chain. It all started with a request from a young customer who wanted to buy an energy drink for a proof of adulthood. Traders were obliged by law to do this from the new year, but teenagers from Olesnitz did not understand and attacked Zhabka's employees.
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This shocking case was first revealed by the website MojaOlesnica.pl. According to local journalists, on Friday evening one of the chain stores in Oleśnica frog visited A young woman who wanted to buy energy drink.
When the seller asked to show a document proving that he was over 18 years old, the customer allegedly became angry, insulted the employees with vulgar words and issued serious threats.
The situation only became tense after he answered Zhabka sellers decided to close the shop and keep the woman there before the called person arrives police. Then the aggressive user's friends, who had been waiting outside earlier, broke into Zhabka.
“When “support” arrived, the girl allegedly started fighting with the seller. The employee tried to stop and calm him down, but the aggressor still wanted to hit him. Suddenly his friend started beating the seller. The man was cruel. He was beaten and had multiple injuries on his head. The attacker continued to attack even when his victim was barely standing,” reports MojaOlesnica.pl.
Attack of the youth criminals They should have ended up stealing beer and running away. Just ten hours later, the participants Riots in Olesnica in Zhabka However, they were in the hands of the police. Officers arrested a total of three people. As reported later by the police headquarters in Olesnica The “main criminals” turned out to be 17-year-old youths.
Energy drinks in Poland for adults only. Here are the consequences of the latest change in the law
About the changes in the law that led the teenagers from Oleshnik to such rage Beata Pieniążek-Osińska recently mentioned in naTemat.pl.
“No more energy drinks for kids and teenagers. Juniors won't buy energy drinks anymore… shopbecause From January 1, the sale of drinks containing high caffeine and taurine to minors came into force.“- reported our journalist.
It seems to be corrected Public Health ActAs of the new year, most of the popular energy drinks have been banned from being sold to minors.
What specific products are these? According to the new regulations a energy drink Food containing it is considered a prohibited product caffeine in a proportion greater than 150 mg/liter or Taurineexcluding substances naturally present in it.
Such beverages may not be sold in specified “units of the educational system”. art. Law 2 – Education Law. So it's about, among other things: about schools, Educational institutions or Pedagogical libraries. The energy must be gone stores operating there.