Today, the Migration Pact formally comes into force. What does this mean for Poland? Although the December 13 coalition assures that, in practice, it changes almost nothing, public concern – and even fear among Poles – is growing. After all, everyone remembers the honesty and the fulfillment of promises by the current governing team. And it must also be added that although our streets do not yet resemble the streets of Belfast, life here is no longer as safe as it used to be.
On the night of June 11-12, 2025, 24-year-old Klaudia was brutally attacked by a 19-year-old Venezuelan citizen in Glazja Park in Toruń. The man stabbed her several times, causing severe injuries to her head, neck, and chest. Klaudia was taken to hospital, where doctors fought for her life for two weeks, but were unable to save her. She died on June 27.
So far, this is the only such tragic case, but concerning incidents are becoming increasingly frequent. The number of physical attacks carried out by illegal migrants is rising.
In Warsaw, people still remember an incident involving a Rwandan citizen, infamous for first jumping on cars and then throwing a young Pole off an electric scooter. More recently, there was a brutal attack in Lublin which only by a miracle did not end in the victim’s death. An African man attacked a 40-year-old Pole in Lublin. The man, with a cut throat and a damaged spine, was taken to hospital. While doctors fought for his life for many hours, the attacker detained by police was released, and the act he committed was classified as merely a “minor bodily injury”; he will also not be deported.
Police in Lublin – or rather their superiors – appear to be well-learned students of their colleagues from Southampton in England.
Henry Nowak, an 18-year-old student of Polish origin, was murdered in that city by Sikh Vickrum Digwa. Nowak was stabbed five times with a knife, but the police who arrived at the scene handcuffed the dying man, believing the testimony of the perpetrator, who accused him of a racist attack. After Nowak’s death, police released footage of the intervention, which caused widespread outrage and riots.
Poles, apart from sporadic (for now) cases, can feel relatively safe in their own country. Abroad, however, the situation is much worse, as Henry’s case is, unfortunately, not an isolated one.
Earlier, on April 10, 2024, 39-year-old Pole Mikael (Michał) was shot dead in the Stockholm district of Skärholmen in a passage under a viaduct, while he was cycling with his 12-year-old son to the swimming pool. He encountered a group of young men there, including Mohammed Khalid Mohammed. The Pole called out their hooligan behaviour, which angered Mohammed, who murdered him in front of his son. Mohammed had been known to Swedish police since the age of 13 and was a member of a local gang, the so-called Skärholmen faction.
Very recently, on June 5, a tragedy was only narrowly avoided in Milan. A Polish model was attacked there by a group of several men who beat her and attempted to rape her. Fortunately, her loud calls for help were heard by a nearby Italian man, who drove the gang of degenerates away.