The alleged murderer of the mayor of Gdansk is said to have planned an attack in Warsaw, according to a media report. This has announced the convicted man to a fellow inmate in prison, reported today the agency PAP, citing investigators. The 27-year-old Danziger had been released only in December after a five and a half years imprisonment for bank robberies.
He stabbed the mayor Pawel Adamowicz several times on Sunday during a fundraising event with a knife. The politician died on Monday, he is buried on Saturday.
The alleged perpetrator had already traveled to Warsaw one day after his release and tried to reach the grounds of Andrzej Duda’s presidential palace there at night. The Gdańsk Procuratorate confirmed that the man had been recorded on surveillance recordings outside the presidential palace. Details of what the man made in Warsaw, spokeswoman Grazyna Warwyniuk initially did not name. „We’ll check that,“ she said.
At fence failed
According to media reports, the man could not cross the fence of Duda’s official residence and returned to Gdansk. There he killed Adamowicz, who since 1998 was mayor of the North Polish city.
Against the attacker investigate the authorities for murder. The motive was revenge for the prison sentence. According to unofficial reports, the man was mentally ill. According to prosecutors, he expressed so far not to the deed. The agency confirmed media reports that before his release, his mother informed the police that her son’s mental health and behavior was disturbing her.
