Assassination of Paweł Adamowicz

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Assassination of Paweł Adamowicz
Gdańsk Town Hall, two days after assassination
Location	Targ Węglowy, Gdańsk
Date	13 January 2019
Target	Paweł Adamowicz
Attack type	assassination by stabbing
Perpetrator	Stefan W.

Paweł Adamowicz, a former mayor of Gdańsk, Poland, was murdered on 13 January 2019, during the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity charity event. The incident took place in the Targ Węglowy in the city of Gdańsk, Poland.^[1][2][3]

Assassination[]

During the 27th Final of the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity in Gdańsk, Paweł Adamowicz was standing on the stage among others. Stefan W. got onto the stage and stabbed him three times. Then the attacker said:

"Halo! Halo! Nazywam się Stefan W. Siedziałem niewinny w więzieniu. Siedziałem niewinny w więzieniu. Platforma Obywatelska mnie torturowała. Dlatego właśnie zginął Adamowicz."^[4]

English translation:

"Halo! Halo! My name is Stefan W. I had been in prison innocently. I had been in prison innocently. Civic Platform was torturing me. That's why Adamowicz was killed."^[5]

After his speech, technical workers overpowered the attacker.^[6] Paweł Adamowicz died in the hospital the next day.^[7]

The attacker[]

The attacker was a recidivist. At the time of the incident he was 27 years old.^[8] As a teenager he already had problems with the law, and he had robbed banks a few times. Before the assassination of Adamowicz, he had been in prison.^[9]

Mourning[]

The President of Poland, Andrzej Duda, established a national mourning on the day of Adamowicz's funeral, from 18 to 19 January 2019.^[10]

The vice-mayor of Gdańsk, Aleksandra Dulkiewicz, and the mayor of Warsaw, Rafał Trzaskowski, made a decision to set mournings in Gdańsk and Warsaw.^[11]

The day following the assassination, the leader of Civic Platform Grzegorz Schetyna asked the Marshall of Sejm to mark a minute of silence during the parliament session.^[12]

In many Polish cities events were held where citizens could sign collective books of condolences for Adamowicz's family.^[13][14]

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