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Pawel Adamowicz, 53, has been mayor of the port city of Gdansk since 1998.
The mayor of the great Polish port of Gdansk, Pawel Adamowicz, 53, seriously injured when he was stabbed by a man during a public ceremony on Sunday, died Monday, announced a doctor at the city's university hospital.
"Despite all our efforts, we could not save it," said Dr. Tomasz Stefaniak, quoted by the PAP agency.
After being stabbed, Adamowicz was hospitalized in "very, very serious conditions", according to the same Stefaniak, who worked for the mayor.
The stab came on Sunday evening before several hundred people, on a podium erected for a national charity to raise funds and finance the purchase of equipment for hospitals.
The aggressor was quickly stopped by security agents without resistance.
According to a police spokesperson from Gdansk, he is a 27-year-old man who lives in this city of half a million inhabitants, located on the Baltic Sea coast.
Several media reported that this man had served a five-year prison sentence for four armed attacks against the Gdansk banks and that his mental health would be severely degraded during his stay in prison.
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