{"id":2186961,"date":"2026-10-08T10:49:46","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T07:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2186961"},"modified":"2026-10-08T10:49:46","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T07:49:46","slug":"caretaker-killed-and-two-teachers-injured-in-knife-attack-at-poland-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2186961","title":{"rendered":"Caretaker killed and two teachers injured in knife attack at Poland school"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A police presence at the scene after the attack on Thursday<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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A 37-year-old caretaker has died after being stabbed by a former pupil at a school in Poland, police have said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The 15-year-old entered the primary school in Leszczyd\u00f3\u0142-Nowiny, north of Warsaw, at around 09:00 (07:00 GMT) and attacked the caretaker, before being overpowered by a teacher and the school’s headteacher who were also injured.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Prime Minister Donald Tusk said the boy was wearing a helmet to which a camera was attached, and appeared to have been “intending to film the knife attack”. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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It comes after a 19-year-old was arrested on suspicion of a stabbing attack at another school in which nine people were injured on Wednesday, and officials said they had prevented a third such attackthe same day.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Interior Minister Marcin Kierwi\u0144ski said a 17-year-old was detained in the town of Sierpc, north-west of Warsaw, after stating “on school grounds that he planned to do something… dangerous – that he intended to harm someone”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Teachers had alerted the police, who found that the teenager was in possession of two knives.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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“The young person had been searching for information on how to orchestrate a ‘bloody’ event of this kind,” Kierwi\u0144ski said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Tusk said he feared a “grim copycat phenomenon” at an emergency meeting to discuss the incidents on Thursday, and ordered police to visit schools daily to prevent more violence.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The 15-year-old who attacked the caretaker on Thursday was carrying three knives, Poland’s interior ministry spokesperson Karolina Galecka said. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Polish media report that the caretaker had tried to stop him from entering the school. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The boy used to study at the John-Paul II primary school, but his motives for the attack are unclear, Galecka added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The teacher and the headteacher’s lives are not in danger, the ministry’s spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Local media, citing a police spokesperson, reported authorities had information to suggest incidents over the past two days could be related to an internet challenge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n

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