The mayor of Gdansk has been injured in a fundraiser from a knife attacker difficult. Adamowicz is one of the most well-known opposition politicians in Poland. As the motive of the attacker’s revenge is suspected.
Gdansk mayor Pawel Adamowicz is attacked during the finals of a nationwide fundraising campaign by an attacker with a knife and seriously injured. His condition was serious, said Poland’s Minister of the interior Joachim Brudzinski to the channel TVN24, and condemned the attack as an “act of barbarism”. Adamowicz had been reanimated after the attack.
According to the Gdansk police, the mayor came then to the hospital. The state of Adamowicz was very serious, there is hope, and tweeted the President of Poland, Andrzej Duda. For Monday, the hospital announced in a press conference.
Adamowicz was immediately brought to hospital for treatment.
revenge as a motive?
The attackers had stormed according to media reports, the stage of the event and a number of times Adamowicz with a knife stabbed. Behind the fact a revenge action was suspected. The offender to have shouted during the attack that he was innocent, have been in detention, it said citing eyewitnesses. The 27-year-old gdańsk, the according to Reports, due to Bank robberies more than a five-year prison sentence had been served, was detained.
Adamowicz is one of the most famous politicians in Poland. He’s been around for 20 years, mayor of the port city of Gdansk. Until 2015, he was a member of the opposition civic platform PO. Most recently, he was elected in 2018 he founded the voters ‘ Association “All for Danzig”.
