Polish police release images of suspects in assault on professor
PR dla Zagranicy
Roberto Galea
07.10.2016 17:17
Security camera images of suspects in an assault on a university professor were published by Warsaw police in an appeal for help on Friday.
Security camera image of suspects. Photo: Warsaw police headquarters
Police are asking for help in identifying two men who may have been involved in the 8 September attack.
Jerzy Kochanowski, a Warsaw University history professor, received a blow to the head which required stitches after speaking German while on a tram in the Polish capital.
Kochanowski was talking with a colleague from the University of Jena in Germany, according to one of his students who published an account of the incident on social media.
“One of the other passengers didn’t like this. In response to [Kochanowski’s] question ‘Why should I not speak German?’, the other passenger stood up and hit him,” the post on social media read.
Kochanowski told the Newsweek Polska magazine that his attacker was a “drunken proletarian”.
On 10 September, two Asian women were subjected to a verbal attack when an aggressive man yelled “Poland is for Poles only” on an underground train in the capital. (vz/pk)
Source: Warsaw police headquarters