Eight Poles brutally attack young Ukrainians, lecturing them over historical issues
Photo: In Poland, eight men attacked Ukrainians because of their ethnicity (Getty Images)
In Radom, Poland, eight men brutally beat three Ukrainians. The brawl was instigated by a drunk Polish man who wanted to lecture them about Volhynia, according to Onet.
How fight began
The incident occurred on August 2 between 5 and 6 a.m. on Malczewski Street in Radom. The attack did not come to light until several days later.
Tomasz G., a 34-year-old resident of Lublin, had come to Radom for a wedding, and after the celebration, he began wandering around the city. On the street, he met three 20-year-old Ukrainians and struck up a conversation with them about their origins.
The men did not like his behavior. According to them, the Polish man wanted a lecture on the Volhynia tragedy.
At that moment, the intoxicated Polish man called out to three or four strangers who were crossing the street for help and told them that there were Ukrainians in front of them. They reacted instantly.
"They reacted very spontaneously to this, and the attack began," says Cezary Ołtarzewski, a prosecutor with the Radom District Prosecutor's Office.
Subsequently, several more men joined in the beating, bringing the total number of attackers to eight. The Ukrainians sustained head and facial injuries and were examined by forensic medical experts.
"He ordered a taxi and left as if nothing had happened," the prosecutor tells Gazetą Wyborczą about Tomasz G.'s behavior after the attack.
The police managed to identify the main organizer of the brawl. He was taken to the Prosecutor's Office.
The man admitted his guilt and stated that he was intoxicated at the time of the attack. He was placed under police supervision. The perpetrator faces up to five years in prison.
The police are continuing to search for the remaining attackers and are reviewing city surveillance footage.
Incidents of aggression against Ukrainians in Poland occur regularly. On August 14, the Poznań police detained a woman who, along with a friend, attacked Ukrainians.
Two drunk Polish women shouted insults and spat at passersby, and one of them struck a man with an upside-down umbrella.
On the same day in Bydgoszcz, two Polish adults attacked a 14-year-old Ukrainian girl and her 12-year-old brother because the children were speaking Ukrainian.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk publicly addressed the attackers and urged them to turn themselves in to the police by the end of the week.
