A Polish Mayor Has Died After Being Stabbed On Stage At A Charity Event

Photo Source: BBC

Pawel Adamowicz, a 53 year old polish politician serving as the mayor of Gdansk in Poland has died after being stabbed on stage at a charity event attended by hundreds of people on Sunday. He was stabbed in the area of his heart.

The Mayor had been rushed to a hospital where he had five hours of surgery but unfortunately passed away on Monday.

According to the Police, the assassin is a 27 year old man with a criminal record including various carried out bank robberies, it is however, believed that the suspect gained access to the stage through a press pass. The name of the assassin is still unknown.

According to TVN footage, it showed the assassin after stabbing Adamowicz, yelling that he had wrongly arrested and jailed by the previous government led by Adamowicz's political party, Civic Platform.

Pawel Adamowicz was elected a member of the city council in Gdansk in 1990 and held it until 1998, when he was elected Mayor of Gdansk.

Meanwhile, the President of the Europeon Council Donald Tusk has expressed his deep condolences in his Twitter account, he described him as "a man of solidarity". See Tweet:

Paweł Adamowicz, Mayor of Gdańsk, a man of Solidarity and freedom, a European, my good friend, has been murdered. May he rest in peace.

— Donald Tusk (@eucopresident) January 14, 2019

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