Gdansk, Poland 19th January 2019. Funeral of the Mayor of Gdansk, Pawel Adamowicz, in the Mariacka Basilica in Gdansk. Putting the urn with ashes to the crypt. Credit: Slawomir Kowalewski/Alamy Live News
On 13 January 2019, Adamowicz was stabbed in the heart and through the diaphragm with a knife on stage at the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity event in Gdańsk and was taken to hospital in critical condition, where he underwent five hours of surgery. He succumbed to his injuries the following day. The assassin was apprehended at the scene of the crime. A Gdansk police spokesman said the detained man was a 27-year-old who lived in the city, named as Stefan W. by the Gdańsk prosecutor's Office a police spokesperson stated that the man has a "long criminal history", including bank robbery and an attack on a police officer. After stabbing the mayor, he seized the microphone and claimed false imprisonment and torture at the hands of the previous centrist Civic Platform Party (PO) government. His murder was inadvertently captured on video by the many attendees of the charity event.
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