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Thousands of Poles protested Monday against hatred and violence in Warsaw and elsewhere after the death of the mayor of Danzig, Pawel Adamowicz, reports PAP, taken over by France Presse.
53-year-old Adamowicz died in the hospital on Monday due to severe knife injuries during a charity concert on Sunday night. The assailant – who was arrested after the attack – is, according to local media reports, a 27-year-old man convicted of looting a bank and released last December.
The post-attack demonstrations took place with the slogan "Stop hate". In Gdansk, President of the Council of the European Union, Donald Tusk, former Polish Prime Minister, born in this city, spoke to the crowd:I promise you today, dear Pawel, that for you we will free our Gdansk, our Poland and our Europe from hate. "
Polish President Andrzej Duda, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, Interior Minister Joachim Brudzinski and several party politicians condemned the attack and sent condolences after Adamowicz's death. He was elected for the first time in 1998 and in 2010 he won 65% of the votes, being among the oldest mayors in office in Poland.
In 2015, when he became independent, Pawel Adamowicz was a member of the Civic Platform (PO). Before being arrested, his killer said he wanted revenge, claiming he was incarcerated and tortured by the OP, a party now in opposition but in power at the time.
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