Three school attacks in one week

A nineteen-year-old student injured nine people at a vocational school in Mazovian on Wednesday. A day later, a fifteen-year-old killed a thirty-seven-year-old caretaker at a primary school in Leszczydół-Nowiny, north of Warsaw.

Tusk blames online glorification of violence

Prime Minister Donald Tusk said the attacks were driven by online activity and the glorification of violence. He told security services on Sunday these were spontaneous actions, not part of an organized group.

“These are very often spontaneous actions inspired by online activity”

Links to extreme right and Nazi content

Tusk said the attacks were acts of nihilistic violence associated with the extreme right.Police noticed some detainees were active in ultraright environments and found a rise in online searches for Nazi content and mass killers.

“In the past years and months, we have noted - globally and in Poland - a rise in the fascination with violence”

Police arrest one hundred seventeen people

Police arrested one hundred seventeen people across Poland for possession of knives or other weapons, or for threatening to attack schools or fellow students, after searching tens of thousands of schools nationwide.