Thousands and thousands of zlotys had been rapidly collected to assist the 2 wounded law enforcement officials who confronted the gunman.
One, Jakub Kulik, has been named because the hero of the drama. Social media photographs confirmed him capturing and wounding the gunman regardless of being hit himself.
“Our highest reward goes to the heroic law enforcement officials who risked their lives within the line of responsibility,” stated Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
Police had appealed for blood donors to assist Kulik “who with out hesitation confronted an armed attacker”. Lengthy queues fashioned exterior donor centres that had been besieged with gives and stated they might not cope.
However behind the solidarity and the pleasure, individuals know that Poland, already near the frontline of the Ukraine-Russia battle, has now modified.
This was additionally “an assault on Poland, on our lifestyle,” the centrist Rzeczpospolita day by day wrote in an editorial.
It was an assault on “a price we held so pricey — that sense of safety, which, because it seems, was merely an phantasm,” added commentator Boguslaw Chrabota within the editorial.
Chrabota accused Polish politicians of fostering divisions inside a rustic the place centrist prime minister is battling nationalist President Karol Nawrocki and a vociferous far proper.
“Polish Breiviks are rising,” warned Chrabota, referring to the neo-Nazi Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 individuals in Norway on Jul 22, 2011.
