A Polish mayor killed at the knife in a public act The mayor of the Polish city of Gdansk, Pawel Adamowicz, died Monday (14), a day after being stabbed in front of a crowd at a charity event aimed at collecting donations for hospitals.

DW Brazil – . The blows hit his heart and abdomen.

The attack occurred while the mayor was on the scene. After the knife attack, the attacker took the microphone to say that with his attack, he was seeking revenge for having been "unjustly imprisoned and tortured by the Citizen Platform Party" .

Adamowicz, 53, was a member of the party's main party. the opposition in Poland, the liberal platform of center-right Citizen Platform and mayor of Gdansk since 1998. In 2018, he is re-elected with 65% of the votes.

Identified by Stefan W., the abuser is a 27 year old young man. sentenced in 2014 to five and a half years imprisonment for attempted robbery in a bank. He was an avowed defendant and was released last month.

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