Polish police have announced the arrest of a 30-year-old man suspected of stabbing two passengers on a city bus in Warsaw.
Source: a press release by police in the Żoliborz district, Warsaw, as reported by European Pravda
Details: In mid-October, the man attacked two Ukrainian citizens with a knife, inflicting multiple stab and slash wounds. He fled the scene before police arrived.
The victims were taken to hospital with multiple stab and slash wounds. Investigators established that the attack was motivated by the victims' ethnicity.
Police quickly identified the man suspected of carrying out the attack. An investigation found that the 30-year-old man had been hiding and living in a wooded area in Bielany, where he was detained last weekend.
The suspect was taken to a police station and placed in a cell. After gathering evidence, prosecutors brought three charges against him. Two concern the attack on the Ukrainian citizens motivated by their ethnicity.
The man committed these criminal offences as a repeat offender, within five years of serving at least six months' imprisonment imposed for a similar intentional offence. He served the sentence imposed by the Warsaw-Żoliborz District Court intermittently between April 2021 and February 2023.
The offences carry prison sentences ranging from three to 20 years. At the prosecutor's request, the court ordered the 30-year-old to be held in pre-trial detention for three months.
Background: In August, three Polish men stood trial over the brutal beating of a Ukrainian citizen in Radom. In Kraków, a 39-year-old man verbally abused a Ukrainian couple. In Gdańsk, a man attacked a Ukrainian passer-by and two local Polish residents, whom he called " Banderites A pejorative term derived from the name of Ukrainian nationalist leader Stepan Bandera, widely used in Russian propaganda to label Ukrainians or supporters of Ukrainian statehood ".
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