Paweł Adamowicz Poland Mayor Assassination

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13 January 2019 Paweł Adamowicz Poland Mayor Assassination  Paweł Bogdan Adamowicz was a Polish politician and lawyer who served as Mayor of the city of Gdańsk was stabbed during a live charity event in Gdańsk and died the following day from his injuries, at the age of 53. The attacker  grabbed the microphone and told the stunned crowd he had been wrongly imprisoned for bank robberies under a Civic Platform-led government.“I was jailed but innocent. ... Civic Platform tortured me. That’s why Adamowicz just died,”Identified by authorities only as Stefan W., he was arrested and charged Monday with murder. Although most media did not call it an act of terrorism even though the motive was political,  Andrew Stroehlein called it an act of extreme-right terrorism and Antonio TAJANI, President of the European Parliament spoke about the death of Pawel Adamowicz and the  fight against violence and terrorism, asking for  one minute of silence for the victims of terrorism.


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1. Mayor's killing in Poland sparks anger against hate speech - The Washington Post Poland's ruling party leader, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, was not present at the session, ... with members of the country's right-wing ruling party, Law and Justice. ... for medical treatment in Gdansk, the far-right group All-Polish Youth ...t it was revenge against Civic Platform, the now-opposition party that was in power when he was imprisoned for bank robberies.
2. Murder of Gdańsk mayor highlights Poland's polarization – POLITICO he government's backers and opponents live in largely separate worlds.  Adamowicz, 53, was a high-profile liberal critic of the ruling right-wing Law and Justice (PiS). He supported issues like gay rights and accepting asylum seekers, in stark contrast to PiS ideology, and his murder is being treated as a symptom of an illness in Polish society and politics. The mayor had been subjected to barrages of abuse from pro-government media and other right-wingers. The nationalist All-Polish Youth even issued a “political death certificate” for Adamowicz two years ago. The charity event Adamowicz was taking part in on Sunday is an even more prominent target of pro-government attacks.Owsiak’s fund success, coupled with his unapologetic liberalism, has made him a target for right-wingers, government backers, PiS members of parliament, and some Catholic clergy.

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Antonio TAJANI, President of the European Parliament, opens the plenary session (14-17 January 2019) of the European Parliament in Strasbourg. He speaks about the death of Pawel Adamowicz, Mayor of Gdansk, fight against violence and terrorism in particular during the Strasbourg attack in December 2018 and MEPs make one minute of silence for the victims of terrorism.

Andrew Stroehlein on Twitter: "Awful news from Poland: attempted ... Awful news from Poland: attempted assassination of mayor of Gdańsk, Paweł Adamowicz. Extreme-right terrorism hits Europe again.
01/13/2019  Poles unite in grief over assassination of Gdansk mayor - AP News WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The popular liberal mayor of Poland’s port city of Gdansk died Monday after being stabbed at a charity event by an ex-convict with a history of violent crime. Thekilling plunged the politically divided country into shock and grief and brought Poles into ...  Pawel Adamowicz, 53, died from the wounds inflicted by a 27-year-old man who stormed onstage Sunday evening assailant rushed up and stabbed him three times, then grabbed a microphone to tell the audience that he acted in revenge against the country’s main opposition party, Civic Platform attacker told the stunned crowd he had been wrongly imprisoned under a Civic Platform-led government.“I was jailed but innocent. ... Civic Platform tortured me. That’s why Adamowicz just died,” he said. Identified by authorities only as Stefan W., he was arrested and charged Monday with murder.  Deputy Chief Prosecutor Krzysztof Sierak said there were questions about the mental state of the attacker, who used a 14.5-centimeter (5.5-inch) knife on Adamowicz, and that two psychiatrists will examine him. He had served 5½ years in prison and was released toward the end of last year. The right-wing ruling Law and Justice party faced accusations that a hostile atmosphere against Adamowicz and other liberals has created fertile ground for violence.

Paweł Adamowicz - Wikipedia Paweł Bogdan Adamowicz was a Polish politician and lawyer who served as Mayor of the city of Gdańsk, Pomeranian Voivodeship, from 1998 until his ...On 13 January 2019, Adamowicz was stabbed during a live charity event in Gdańsk and died the following day from his injuries, at the age of 53.    On 13 January 2019, Adamowicz was stabbed in the heart and the diaphragm with a knife on stage at the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity event in Gdańsk and was taken in critical condition to hospital, where he underwent five hours of surgery for wounds to his heart and internal organs.[12] He died the following day.[13][14]  The assassin was apprehended at the scene of the crime. A Gdańsk police spokesman said the detained man was a 27-year-old who lived in the city, named as Stefan W. by the Gdańsk prosecutor's office;[15] a police spokesperson stated that the man has a "long criminal history", including bank robbery and an attack on a police officer.[16] After stabbing the mayor, he seized the microphone and claimed to have been wrongly jailed by the previous centrist government[17] of the Civic Platform (PO) and tortured.[18][19] The murder was captured on video.[20]

Polish mayor dies after being stabbed in heart at age 53 - The ...
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The popular liberal mayor of the Polish port city of Gdansk died on Monday ... stabwounds a day after being attacked onstage by an ex-convict at a charity event. ... The assassination of Adamowicz, a six-term mayor who often ...

Polish mayor critical after knifeman stabs him IN THE HEART ... - RT.com As the concert was nearing its end, the attacker rushed the stage and assaulted MayorPawel Adamowicz by stabbing him with a knife several ...For all that “torture” he suffered from the Civic Platform, a Polish center-right liberal-conservative and Christian democratic political party of which Adamowicz is a member, the mayor of Gdansk deserved to die, the attacker stated.

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  recently released fromprison where he had served a term for bank robberies.