Polish justice minister resigns over gun permit

WARSAW: Poland's justice minister stepped down late Wednesday after coming under fire for obtaining a gun permit without taking a required test, the government said ahead of both presidential and parliamentary elections.

Cezary Grabarczyk, 55, wound up in the crosshairs of the opposition and the media after reports surfaced last week that he only took the written test to obtain his permit from a police unit in the central city of Lodz, which is already under investigation for similar cases.