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Security head charged with misleading police probing murder of Polish mayor

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Paweł Kononczuk 22.01.2019 07:30
The head of security at a charity concert during which a Polish mayor was fatally stabbed has been charged with misleading investigators probing the murder.
The head of security at the charity concert, being taken to a prosecutor's office in Gdańsk on Monday. Photo: PAP/Adam WarżawaThe head of security at the charity concert, being taken to a prosecutor's office in Gdańsk on Monday. Photo: PAP/Adam Warżawa

The security head was also charged on Monday evening with inciting others to make false statements.

"The suspect did not admit to the charges,” said Grażyna Wawryniuk, a spokeswoman for the District Prosecutor's Office in Gdańsk, northern Poland.

Paweł Adamowicz, the mayor of Gdańsk, died last week from severe wounds inflicted by a knifeman during a high-profile annual fundraiser called the Great Orchestra of Christmas Charity.

Wawryniuk said earlier on Monday that the charity event’s security chief, named only as Dariusz S., claimed the attacker used a media pass to get onto the stage.

Adamowicz was knifed on the stage in front of a crowd. He died last Monday after sustaining severe wounds.

The murder shocked Poland, prompting calls for an end to hate speech amid bitter political divisions in the country.

The 27-year-old knifeman, who was detained at the scene of the attack and subsequently charged with murder, has been identified as an ex-convict who had recently been released from prison for armed robbery.

(pk/gs)

Source: PAP

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