A 29-year-old Colombian was taken to the district prosecutor’s office in nearby Świecie on Monday after a 41-year-old Pole died of knife wounds inflicted during a street brawl outside a bar in Nowe early Sunday, police said.
Thirteen men were arrested – ten Colombians employed at a local plant and three Polish residents. Two other people suffered minor injuries. Officers said the participants tried to flee in a car that rammed a patrol car before four intoxicated men, aged 21-45, were caught.
Police spokesperson Joanna Tarkowska told Polish Press Agency that the suspected murder weapon had been secured. Investigators are checking each detainee’s role and what sparked the fight.
Border-guard checks showed six of the Colombians are in Poland legally; one has been ordered to leave and another’s status is still being verified, provincial police spokeswoman Monika Chlebicz added.
The killing ignited anti-immigrant anger in the 6,000-strong town. About 100 residents gathered near the bar on Sunday afternoon, shouting “murderers” and demanding foreigners leave Poland. A second rally later chanted “not one immigrant”, led in part by the far-right nationalist All-Polish Youth (Młodzież Wszechpolska) movement.
Social-media calls circulated for “citizens’ patrols” in Nowe and other local communities. Similar appeals were voiced at a silent march in Toruń, after last month’s fatal stabbing of a 24-year-old woman, allegedly by a 19-year-old Venezuelan man.
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Source: PAP