• Mayor of Gdańsk stabbed during annual charity event
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Prezydent Gdańska Paweł Adamowicz zaatakowany na scenie WOŚP Rough translation/synopsis from Polish Paweł Adamowicz, the mayor of Gdańsk, was attacked with a sharp object while on stage during charity event. Joachim Brudziński, Minister of the Interior, confirmed that the mayor was resuscitated. Paweł Adamowicz was moved to University Clinical Centre where he is undergoing surgery. The attacker was subdued. Not much is available now as it happend around 2 hours ago. There has been information that the mayor was stabbed in the heart area, but nothing has been confirmed so far, only that his condition is very serious. WOŚP is a well-known and successful charity annual event in Poland, money is gathered to buy hospital equipment, usually for newborns and babies, it often involves music stages, various shows and lots of different highlights. Here's a video of the attack: WARNING - IT'S DISTURBING, although no blood can be seen.
Pretty crazy to hear for someone from Gdańsk. It was such a wholesome event until that gut came along, they've raised 1 bilion PLN for the charity.
Someone call the polish!
There's been an update just now: the mayor has died in the hospital. Can some mod update the title? I don't see any way to do it.
shit's fucking fucked man
That's horrible. How the heck did that maniac get so close to him though. Does the mayor not have personal security? Especially at big public events like this.
This is where my family emigrated from im 1943 :[
Sadly not, our Secret Service equivalent doesn't protect Mayors, they don't have their own security detail. The police normally is responsible for that, but Polish police isn't exactly the most competent on the continent.
I don't know whether the possibility that this was a politically-motivated assassination is more or less worrying than the idea of it being a random cold-blooded murder. I hope the international media continues to follow this case if anything comes of it.
So far it seems the perpetrator had mental issues and blamed Paweł Adamowicz for his earlier imprisonment / harsh conditions during imprisonment, I am not sure if anything was confirmed ny now.
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/14/world/europe/pawel-adamowicz-gdansk-mayor-dead.html
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/240234/51d318cd-e816-447f-a96a-fec2a348ce78/zlrbcih6wfa21.jpg The rally held in Gdańsk to pay tribute to President Adamowicz
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