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| Liberal mayor of Poland's Gdansk dies after stabbing |
| 2019-01-15 |
| [REUTERS] Pawel Adamowicz, the liberal mayor of the Polish city of Gdansk, died on Monday of his wounds a day after being stabbed by a former convict who rushed the stage during one of Poland’s biggest annual charity events. Thousands of people gathered in Polish cities to mourn the death of Adamowicz, who had been mayor of Gdansk for 20 years and espoused liberal causes including giving refuge to "We couldn’t win," Health Minister Lukasz Szumowski told news hounds via private broadcaster TVN. Doctors had operated on Adamowicz for five hours, the state news agency PAP said. Polish officials said the day of Adamowicz’s funeral would be a national day of mourning. TV footage showed thousands turning out for commemorative vigils, including in Gdansk, fount of the 1980s Solidarity movement that was instrumental in bringing an end to Communist rule, as well as Poznan and the capital Warsaw. The attacker was identified by Polish authorities as a 27-year-old named Stefan, who was released last month from prison where he had served 5-1/2 years for a 2014 conviction for attempted bank robbery. His full name has so far been withheld. PAP said without citing a source that the man has been treated in prison hospital previously for schizophrenia. |
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