Poland’s liberal mayor of Gdansk dies after stabbing
The long-serving mayor, known for his defence of migrants, succumbed to his wounds after being attacked on stage by a screaming man
Warsaw — Pawel Adamowicz, the liberal mayor of the Polish city of Gdansk, died on Monday of his wounds a day after being stabbed on stage at a charity event. “We couldn’t win,” Poland’s health minister Lukasz Szumowski told reporters via private broadcaster TVN. Adamowicz was attacked while attending the annual Great Orchestra of Christmas charity, a fundraiser where volunteers collect money for medical equipment in hospitals. Television footage showed a man screaming “Adamowicz is dead!” as he rushed the stage and stabbed the mayor. Speaking on the stage before he was arrested, the man accused the mayor’s former party of putting him in prison and said he was tortured. Doctors operated on Adamowicz for five hours after the incident, Poland’s state news agency PAP said. Politicians across the political spectrum in Poland condemned the stabbing, including members of the ruling nationalist Law and Justice Party (PiS), such as Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and interior minister Joac...
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