In Gdańsk, on the grounds of a holiday allotment, an intoxicated Pole attacked people over a fabricated pretext and national intolerance.
First, the man was drifting his car, after which he aggressively approached a passerby and began attacking because he did not like the man’s “accent,” Onet reports. The Ukrainian managed to get away from the attacker in time.
After that, the perpetrator turned his attention to two other men—a father and son—who turned out to be Poles. He called them “Banderites” and attacked them with his fists. As a result of the fight, the father suffered a broken arm.
The attacker fled the scene by car, but law enforcement detained him later that day in the same area. Tests showed more than 1.5 per mille of alcohol in his blood, and it also emerged that the man does not have a driver’s license at all. Investigators are additionally checking for the presence of narcotic substances in his body.
Police have charged the detainee with causing moderate bodily harm, insults on national grounds, and drunk driving. Since law enforcement view his actions as hooliganism, the attacker faces up to 7.5 years in prison. The prosecutor’s office has currently placed him under police supervision with a ban on approaching the victims.
- Poland is recording an increase in hate crimes. According to the deputy interior minister, in 2025 the number of such cases rose to nearly 1,200 compared with more than 760 in 2024—an increase of more than 30%.