After the attack, in which he attacked a receptionist in front of numerous students and severely beat her with an axe, decapitating her, the attacker did not flee but waited to be arrested by university security, Polish media reported.
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A Warsaw University law student killed a doorman with an axe tonight as he tried to close the entrance to the building when the 22-year-old attacker entered the campus, and a security guard who tried to protect her was seriously injured and rushed to hospital, Polish police said.
“The perpetrator is a 22-year-old Polish citizen. His motives are unknown. We know that he attacked with a sharp weapon. Very brutally, he has already been arrested. A technical worker from the University of Warsaw was killed. Another person was seriously injured and taken to hospital. We will provide more detailed information 40 hours after the investigation,” Piotr Skiba, a spokesman for the District Prosecutor’s Office in Warsaw, told the Gazeta Wyborcza daily.
The rector of the University of Warsaw declared a day of mourning tomorrow, May 8, and convened a crisis headquarters, and according to initial reports, the killer chose the victim at random.
After the attack, in which he attacked a receptionist in front of numerous students and severely beat her with an axe, decapitating her, the attacker did not flee but waited to be arrested by university security, Polish media reported.
“I am shocked by the brutal crime at Warsaw University. I hope that the man injured in the attack will recover. There must be a severe punishment for this brutal attack,” Warsaw Mayor Rafal Tchaskowski said on the Iks website.
At the time of the attack, Justice Minister Adam Bodnar was at the University for a lecture and was immediately evacuated, but according to sources from the Polish Ministry of Justice, the attack has nothing to do with politics or the minister.
The police, at this early stage of the investigation, have no information about the reasons, and according to media reports, numerous students saw the crime.