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Violence Wave with Knife Attacks Reaches Polish Schools

Summary by Deutsche Welle
Poland is regarded as a safe country. Up to now, the Poles only knew about riots in schools from foreign media reports. After a series of stabbing attacks, the fear of counterfeiters is growing.

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Poland is regarded as a safe country. Up to now, the Poles only knew about riots in schools from foreign media reports. After a series of stabbing attacks, the fear of counterfeiters is growing.

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Polish polarization spares no one and nothing, and although everyone is increasingly tired of it, since Karol Nawrocki won the presidential election, it has only intensified, taking over areas once free from it, such as security policy, as best demonstrated by the SAFE dispute. It's hardly surprising, then, that a series of attacks in Polish schools in recent days has also been caught up in its gears, including a knife attack at a school in Lesz…

Leszczydół-Nowina, Ostrołęka, Sierpc—these three towns in the Mazovia region have been attracting attention across Poland for several dozen hours now due to shocking knife attacks by young people that occurred or were allegedly committed at local schools. Investigators are now investigating whether the incidents were connected. Psychologist Dr. Teresa Jadczak-Szumiło from the Polish Trauma Institute, however, has no doubts—regardless of whether …

A series of dramatic incidents have hit schools in Masovia. In the town of Leszczydół-Nowiny near Wyszków, a 15-year-old broke into a school and attacked a janitor with a knife, who died from her wounds. On Wednesday, in Ostrołęka, a 19-year-old stabbed six people in a school. In Sierpc, a 17-year-old planned a knife attack at a school, which was fortunately thwarted.

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RadioMaryja.pl broke the news on Thursday, October 8, 2026.
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