{"id":183328,"date":"2026-10-11T07:01:22","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T07:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/183328\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T07:01:22","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T07:01:22","slug":"second-mass-stabbing-hits-polish-school-filmed-in-grim-copycat-phenomenon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/183328\/","title":{"rendered":"Second mass stabbing hits Polish school, filmed in ‘grim copycat’ phenomenon"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 15-year-old former pupil killed one employee and injured two others at a Polish primary school on Thursday while wearing a helmet-mounted camera, the second school stabbing in two days, possibly in response to an internet challenge, authorities said.<\/p>\n

A 37-year-old woman who worked as a caretaker had died in the latest attack, which took place at around 9 a.m. in Leszczydol-Nowiny, northeast of Warsaw, officials said.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, a 19-year-old wounded 10 people,<\/a> including himself, at another school in Ostroleka, northeastern Poland, and police detained a 17-year-old in Sierpc in north-central Poland on suspicion of planning an attack.<\/p>\n

“We fear a grim copycat phenomenon,” Prime Minister Donald Tusk told an emergency meeting.<\/p>\n

“We are facing an extraordinary situation… for the first time, we are dealing with a killer who wore a helmet-mounted camera, intending to film the knife attack<\/a>.” It was not clear whether the attack was actually filmed.<\/p>\n

\"LocalLocal residents wait next to the scene where a 15-year-old fatally stabbed the caretaker of his former school and wounded two other adults at the John-Paul II primary school in Leszczydol-Nowiny, Poland, on October 8, 2026, a day after a similar knife attack wounded nine in a Polish high school. (credit: WOJTEK RADWANSKI\/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES)Teachers injured restraining attacker<\/p>\n

He ordered police to visit schools daily in an effort to prevent further violence.<\/p>\n

A police spokesperson said authorities had information that the incidents could be related to an internet challenge and that this was being investigated.<\/p>\n

Tusk<\/a> praised the heroism of two teachers at the school who were injured as they tried to stop the attacker.<\/p>\n

Head teacher Krzysztof Ochmanski said he had heard a scream and ran into the corridor.<\/p>\n

“He wounded me with the blade of a rather long knife – he had three knives on him – and hit me with the handle,” he told the public broadcaster Polskie Radio RDC. “By then, I had managed to restrain him.”<\/p>\n

A Reuters reporter saw an air ambulance flying away from the school, where a small crowd had gathered. The father of one child, waiting outside the school, said pupils had not yet been allowed to leave, but were safe.<\/p>\n

Serious offenders becoming younger across Europe<\/p>\n

Footage on public news broadcaster TVP Info showed what appeared to be the attacker being handcuffed and put into a police van.<\/p>\n

Inspector Katarzyna Nowak, director of communications for the national police, said serious offenders were becoming younger across Europe.<\/p>\n

“Over the past few months in Poland<\/a>, we have seen arrests of teenagers who were preparing to carry out attacks… So, this is indeed a problem we face, and one we must acknowledge,” she told TVP Info.<\/p>\n

Interior minister Marcin Kierwinski said that the 17-year-old detained in Sierpc had mentioned plans to do “something dangerous” on school grounds.<\/p>\n

“Data recovered from electronic devices revealed online searches regarding how to orchestrate such a violent event,” Kierwinski said. Police found two knives in his possession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 15-year-old former pupil killed one employee and injured two others at a Polish primary school on Thursday…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[95],"tags":[5247,2014,71,34333,2358,182,657,2056,48877,11673,83244,181],"class_list":["post-183328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-warsaw","tag-attack","tag-crime","tag-europe","tag-mass-shooting","tag-murder","tag-poland","tag-school","tag-stabbing","tag-stabbing-attack","tag-violence","tag-violence-against-teachers","tag-warsaw"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/117420994736630325","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}