Jacek Dobrzyński, spokesman for the Minister Coordinator of Special Services, Tomasz Siemoniak, said on social media that a man who recently attacked police officers in the southern city of Sosnowiec was Polish, not a migrant.
Police had responded to reports of a man vandalising parked cars and a city bus. When they arrived, the suspect attacked them with a metal rod shaped like a machete.
Officers opened fire, critically wounding the man, who later died in hospital.
In a separate incident in Częstochowa, two Polish men were arrested for assaulting individuals from an African country.
"One of the attackers pulled out a knife and stabbed the foreigner in the chest," Dobrzyński wrote.
Another case in Głogów, in western Poland, involved two men in their 20s who were detained after attacking a kebab shop owned by a Bangladeshi national.
Armed with a sharp weapon, they smashed doors, shattered windows and threatened the owner with death, authorities said.
Homegrown hostility
"These are just incidents from recent days," Dobrzyński said. He cited the cases to counter allegations of a migrant-driven crime surge.
"This post is dedicated to those who, through lies and manipulation, incite hatred against others," Dobrzyński wrote on X.
Politics of fear
As concerns rise over youth radicalisation and xenophobia, authorities say Poland’s right-wing opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party has sought to harness public anxiety for political gain.
Party leader Jarosław Kaczyński is planning a major anti-migrant rally in October, a move seen by critics as further stoking societal division rather than addressing its root causes.
Public resistance to such rhetoric is also emerging.
In the southwestern town of Bogatynia, local residents recently blocked a rally organised by far-right activist Robert Bąkiewicz, a figure known for his PiS-aligned views, signalling growing unease with nationalist mobilisation at the grassroots level.
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Source: X/@JacekDobrzynski/@culture_pl
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