Cases
● Physical attack
A Ukrainian couple reported that someone fired at the window of their apartment while they were inside. The projectile damaged the outer layer of the window, and the victim said…
● Physical attack
A Belarusian woman reported that while waiting for a bus with her husband, an unknown man deliberately approached her from behind and repeatedly blew cigarette smoke directly into her face.…
● Physical attack
According to the family's account, on the evening of 18 July 2026 a group of six Ukrainian teenagers aged 13–14 were confronted by an adult woman while speaking Ukrainian near…
● Insult
A Ukrainian woman reported that on the evening of 18 July 2026, while speaking Ukrainian with a colleague outside her hotel in Gdynia, a group of Polish men began loudly…
● Police raid
Polish Border Guard officers, together with Warsaw traffic police, carried out inspections targeting app-based passenger transport drivers to verify the legality of foreigners' residence and employment. During the checks, they…
● Insult
A Ukrainian man named Arsen said that while training at a gym in Poznań, he was confronted by a Polish man, later identified by media reports as MMA fighter Piotr…
● Physical attack
A group of 3–4 intoxicated young men verbally abused a teenage Ukrainian boy on a tram in Poznań. As the boy was leaving the tram, one of the men struck…
● Discrimination
A customer called the Rower Express bicycle and scooter store in Warsaw and, after hearing the employee's Ukrainian accent, said he did not want to buy from 'Ukrainians' and asked…
● Insult
On 12 July, an adult Polish man verbally abused Ukrainian girls, reportedly aged 12, on a city bus after hearing them speak Ukrainian. According to witnesses and video recordings, he…
● Physical attack
A man attacked a passerby who was talking on the phone, striking him twice in the head without prior interaction. During the assault, the attacker shouted insults and said that…
● Insult
An anti-Ukrainian banner was hung overnight in Owińska displaying a crossed-out Ukrainian flag and the message: 'End of hospitality, ungrateful sons of bitches.' Passers-by reported it to police at around…
● Insult
A Belarusian-born owner of a flower shop in Gdańsk said that two customers verbally abused her after one of them claimed the business was 'Ukrainian' and urged another customer not…
● Physical attack
A Belarusian man, Valentin, reported that he was punched in the face without warning by an unknown man while waiting for a taxi at night in central Warsaw. The attacker…
● Physical attack
According to reports posted in the Telegram chat 'Belarusians of Warsaw', a Belarusian man was attacked after asking a woman not to smoke near him at Aleja Solidarności 83/84. The…
● Physical attack
An unidentified man entered the "LAS RĄK" handmade shop in Warsaw and vandalized the interior, destroying part of its handmade products. The case was reported to the police, who are…
● Detention for deportation
On 7 July 2026, officers of the Polish Border Guard and Police detained six foreign nationals after they crossed the Polish-Lithuanian border on foot at an unauthorized location in the…
● Physical attack
A 19-year-old Ukrainian man was attacked by a group of around a dozen young people after they heard him speaking Ukrainian on the phone with his parents, at Wyspa Słodowa.…
● Discrimination
A group of Polish right-wing activists went to the office of a Ukrainian woman who runs a business assisting foreigners with legalization procedures. The activists, reportedly including two people linked…
● Physical attack
A customer bought alcohol in a shop in Wrocław, then drank beer outside the entrance. After a Ukrainian shop assistant asked him to stop drinking in a public place, the…
● Physical attack
A Ukrainian woman was attacked by a Polish man while walking across the Dąbrowa bridge in Łódź. According to her, the man sexually assaulted her by grabbing her breasts and…
● Physical attack
A Belarusian man living in the Podhale region stopped in Ostrowsko to let his dog cool off in a stream. Three local men approached him, became hostile after noticing his…
● Police raid
More than 600 police officers carried out a one-day operation across Warsaw, nearby districts, and other cities, searching nearly 700 apartments, houses, and hostels. The operation resulted in the arrest…
● Physical attack
On the evening of 27 June, a confrontation occurred at Lubianka Reservoir in Starachowice involving Polish citizens and a group of Ukrainian citizens. Initial police statements treated the incident as…
● Physical attack
A 15-year-old Ukrainian boy was physically attacked on a city bus in Płock after speaking Ukrainian with his friend. According to the victim, an adult man told them, 'In Poland…
● Insult
A Polish man threatened and verbally abused a Ukrainian cashier in a Żabka store, using insults and threats motivated by her nationality. A video of the incident spread on social…
● Physical attack
During the night after an event at the Tropicana venue in Mielec, a group of about ten men attacked six foreign nationals from Latin America. The victims, who were legally…
● Physical attack
A 14-year-old Ukrainian boy was assaulted in Warsaw on 21 June after a dispute at a bus stop. The incident began when another boy demanded that he perform tricks on…
● Physical attack
On 20 June in the Bródno district of Warsaw, a 44-year-old Ukrainian taxi driver was attacked while completing a ride on Wysockiego Street. After he dropped off female passengers, a…
● Physical attack
A 37-year-old U.S. citizen was brutally attacked on a tram near Plac Unii Lubelskiej in Warsaw. The victim had boarded the tram with friends and was talking loudly when another…
● Discrimination
A group of four men wearing clothing resembling law-enforcement uniforms was seen in central Warsaw approaching foreigners near the Central Railway Station and claiming to check whether they were legally…
● Physical attack
A legally residing Paraguayan man in Wałbrzych was falsely reported to police on suspicion of filming children at a playground. Officers checked his identity and phone, found no suspicious material,…
● Physical attack
Two men set fire to the Mur Mur restaurant in Warsaw during the night of 14-15 June. According to the owner, the attackers arrived around 4:00 a.m. wearing hoods and…
● Physical attack
A 14-year-old Ukrainian boy was attacked on a playground in Gdańsk on 14 June 2026 after speaking Ukrainian with his friends. According to the family's account, a woman approached him,…
● Physical attack
A taxi driver from Azerbaijan, who has been living legally in Poland for four years, was attacked near Warsaw's Gdański Railway Station after an unidentified man ran up to his…
● Detention for deportation
During the weekend of 12-13 June 2026, officers of the Polish Border Guard detained 45 foreign nationals who had crossed the Polish-Lithuanian border illegally outside designated border-control points. The migrants,…
● Detention for deportation
Polish police detained 21 migrants who had crossed the Lithuanian-Polish border near the village of Widugiery in the Puńsk municipality. The group consisted of 20 men and one woman from…
● Physical attack
In central Warsaw, a conflict occurred during a street performance by Ukrainian musicians when a passerby reacted aggressively. According to witnesses, he shouted offensive remarks targeting the performers because of…
● Labour raid
Polish Border Guard officers from the Warsaw-Modlin post detained 16 foreign nationals during two residency-legality inspections carried out over the past week. The detainees — 10 Nepalese citizens and 6…
● Discrimination
Far-right politicians have ignited a political scandal in Lublin over African students after Krzysztof Bosak, co-leader of the Confederation party and deputy speaker of parliament, criticized promotional videos for the…
● Insult
The incident occurred on May 20 at around 5:26 PM on tram number 2 in Poznań. A drunk Polish man heard a Ukrainian woman speaking on the phone in Ukrainian.…
● Insult
A video circulating on social media shows a security guard at the Fort Wola shopping center in Warsaw aggressively confronting two young Ukrainian men, hurling nationalist insults at them and…
● Discrimination
A Threads user @oscarbarsuk reported that on 13 May at the PKO Rotunda branch in Warsaw, a bank employee named Wiktoria W. refused to update her residence card details (the…
● Physical attack
On the evening of May 8th, in Radom, four men aged 30-40 approached a 20-year-old Ukrainian and asked for a cigarette. Upon hearing his Polish accent, they demanded he sing…
● Physical attack
On the evening of May 7th, a group of around ten Polish youths violently attacked a group of Ukrainian teenagers near the Świętokrzyski Bridge in Warsaw. The attackers, who initially…
● Physical attack
In Olsztyn, a 14-year-old Ukrainian boy was violently attacked by a group of adult men after a minor dispute in a park. The incident began when the victim's 12-year-old brother…
● Insult
On April 27, in a Żabka store on Rembertowska Street in Poznań, a 34-year-old local man dressed as a priest verbally abused a Ukrainian woman working there. Another Ukrainian bystander…
● Insult
In Brzeg, a Ukrainian woman with her two children aged 3 and 4 was approached by two women who shouted phrases such as 'go to the front' and 'shut your…
● Physical attack
A passenger attempted to strike a taxi driver, and shouted "Fuck Ukraine" and "Fuck Ukrainians." He then attacked a police officer.
● Detention for deportation
Polish authorities planned a deportation of Afghan nationals to Kabul for April 10–12, 2026, despite warnings from the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) that Afghanistan remains deeply unsafe — marked by…
● Detention for deportation
Poland’s Border Guard deported three of nine Afghan men to Kabul on 10 April 2026, even though the European Court of Human Rights had issued binding interim measures to stop…
● Physical attack
On the evening of April 4th, around 11:00 PM, near the Imperial Castle in Poznań, a Polish woman attacked two Ukrainian girls aged approximately 14–15 years old. A bystander named…
● Detention for deportation
On April 4, police in Toruń detained a 25-year-old Zimbabwean man who was walking naked across the Józef Piłsudski Bridge. He was heavily intoxicated but non-aggressive. Officers subsequently discovered that…
● Insult
A Belarusian taxi driver named Siarhei was verbally attacked by a passenger in Białystok, in the early hours of April 2nd, 2026. After a calm ride, the passenger turned aggressive…
● Discrimination
A planned asylum center called "Bezpieczna Przystań" in Jahránka near Warsaw has been cancelled following overwhelming local opposition. The facility was intended to house women and mothers with children seeking…
● Physical attack
A woman hit a person twice and said "I hate Ukrainians" on a Warsaw city bus for no apparent reason, as the person was silent and not talking to anyone.…
● Discrimination
The report on PolsatNews describes cases of abuse and exploitation of foreign workers in Poland, including physical violence, psychological pressure, and working 12–16 hours per day without proper contracts or…
● Physical attack
A 20-year-old Ukrainian man experiencing homelessness was brutally attacked at Pasaż Wiecha in central Warsaw. The assault was captured on surveillance footage, which showed a man approaching the victim and…
● Labour raid
Border Guard officers from Częstochowa conducted a legality check on 80 foreign nationals working at a company in Tarnogórski County. Of these, 12 individuals could not demonstrate legal residence and…
● Discrimination
A Belarusian woman named Polina was denied entry to a yoga studio in Białystok after she registered online for a class. When she arrived for her first session, staff told…
● Physical attack
On March 16, 2026, around 18:00 in Warsaw, a conflict occurred on tram line 22 on Aleje Jerozolimskie near the Krucza 05 stop between a 28-year-old Polish man and a…
● Police raid
On March 2–3, 2026, a nationwide operation to detain wanted persons was carried out in Poland, coordinated by the Criminal Bureau of the National Police Headquarters. A total of 26,496…
● Police raid
On February 22, Polish border guards and police inspected six hostels in Warsaw, identifying six foreigners residing illegally in the country. One Georgian was listed in the EU as an…
● Physical attack
Two Ukrainian nationals, Ivan S. and Vasyl H., were attacked with a machete on the evening of February 19, 2026, at a residential property in Przasnysz. The attackers, Mateusz P.…
● Insult
The incident occurred on the night of 17–18 February in a residential building on 1 Maja Street in Szczecin. A 19-year-old and a 15-year-old were involved in the attack. They…
● Physical attack
On February 14 in Warsaw’s district Praga-Północ, a group of five men attacked a Ukrainian citizen after hearing his accent. The attackers were carrying telescopic batons, pepper spray, and objects…
● Physical attack
A 27-year-old pregnant Ukrainian woman, Anastasiya, and her husband were attacked by a taxi driver in central Warsaw on February 12, 2026, near plac Grzybowski. The driver shouted xenophobic remarks…
● Insult
A man speaking Polish has been insulting a Ukrainian in Poznań.
● Physical attack
During a bus trip from Poland to Germany, a conflict arose between a group of Polish passengers and a Ukrainian citizen, which escalated into a physical altercation.
● Physical attack
Late in the evening of February 7, an attack on two Ukrainian women occurred on a street in Pruszków. According to initial reports, the incident involved an aggressive group linked…
● Detention for deportation
A 38-year-old Belarusian volunteer named Siarhiej, who had been helping Ukrainians through the organization Kwitnący Dom, was detained in Warsaw on October 19, 2025, due to an expired residence permit.…
● Physical attack
On 11 December 2025 in a tram in Poznań, two 27-year-old men carried out verbal and physical violence against a passenger who was speaking Ukrainian. The victim was a citizen…
● Physical attack
A 55-year-old man in Gdańsk became aggressive after being refused the sale of alcohol past 10 p.m. at a local store. He argued with the cashier, shouted at other customers,…
● Police raid
Police and the Border Guard launched a series of large-scale inspections targeting foreigners in Poznań, including checks at worker hostels and buses transporting mainly foreign employees. During the first operation,…
● Physical attack
A trial has begun in Wrocław against Małgorzata C. and her partner Dawid Ł., who are accused of attacking 17-year-old Aliona K., a Ukrainian cashier working at a Żabka store…
● Detention for deportation
A 42-year-old Ukrainian train driver was detained after operating a Kyiv–Chełm passenger train under the influence of alcohol. The situation was reported by customs officers who noticed signs of intoxication…
● Physical attack
After shopping at a Biedronka supermarket, a Ukrainian couple was attacked while loading groceries into their car. A drunk man approached them, asked where they were from, and upon hearing…
● Physical attack
Two Ukrainian women, Wira and Valentyna, were attacked by a neighbor in the courtyard of their residential complex. The man, estimated to be about 50 years old, verbally abused them…
● Physical attack
In a bus on line 190, a 38-year-old man verbally abused Ukrainian passengers with xenophobic slurs and physically attacked 51-year-old activist Zenobia Żaczek, causing injuries. He was later arrested at…
● Insult
During a stop of a Ukraine–Estonia bus at a gas station, a Polish man began verbally harassing Ukrainian women. A Latvian passenger stepped in to defend them, which led to…
● Insult
During a roadside intervention in Gdańsk, two plainclothes police officers verbally abused a foreign driver, using xenophobic and offensive language. A recording of the incident circulated on social media, showing…
● Detention for deportation
A 21-year-old Ukrainian citizen and a 17-year-old Belarusian girl were detained for flying a drone over government buildings near Belweder, an area under a no-fly zone. The Ukrainian man was…
● Insult
A group of young people attacked a taxi driven by a Ukrainian migrant. During the incident, the attackers voiced xenophobic remarks, expressing resentment about him working in Poland.
● Insult
City councilor Sylwia Cisoń (Civic Coalition) verbally attacked a taxi driver with xenophobic insults, telling him to "go back to your country," despite him speaking fluent Polish and remaining calm.…
● Detention for deportation
A 42-year-old Ukrainian citizen was detained after repeated minor offenses, mostly petty thefts of alcohol. Police reported that between January and September 2025, he was involved in eight such incidents.…
● Physical attack
A 17-year-old boy, Szymon, who was born and raised in Poland and has dark skin, was stabbed seven times by 17-year-old Gracjan R. during an attack in a public park…
● Physical attack
Two Ukrainian men and a young woman were attacked near a Żabka store after being verbally abused with xenophobic slurs by a group of four Polish men. When the Ukrainians…
● Insult
Six Turkish students and two supervisors, visiting Poland under the EU Erasmus+ exchange program, faced harassment and intimidation from local residents in Góra Kalwaria. The students reported verbal abuse, being…
● Detention for deportation
Border Guard stopped a car driven by a Ukrainian citizen legally residing in Poland, carrying a Pakistani man and two Afghan men who had crossed from Belarus and attempted to…
● Detention for deportation
Border Guard detained 12 foreign nationals working in poultry plants — 7 from Colombia, 4 from Guatemala, and 1 from Nepal — for overstaying visa-free limits or lacking valid documents.…
● Detention for deportation
Officers from the Silesian and Carpathian Border Guard Units detained 22 foreigners staying in Poland in violation of their declared purpose of stay or without any documents allowing them to…
● Detention for deportation
Monitoring systems along the Bug River alerted Border Guard officers in the Sławatycze area to a group of 13 people from Afghanistan who had crossed into Poland from Belarus. They…
● Labour raid
Following months-long inspections of two employment agencies in Wrocław-Strachowice, the Border Guard, together with the National Labour Inspectorate and the Social Insurance Institution, reviewed the employment status of over 2,400…
● Physical attack
A Belarusian couple was brutally attacked near the city’s waterfront. The man sustained a fractured eye socket, as well as head and chest injuries, and is undergoing medical examinations before…
● Physical attack
In the early hours of Wednesday, police responded to a report of two men stabbed on Jagiełły Street. Both victims — citizens of Georgia — were taken to hospital. Two…
● Insult
Nasir was simply doing his shopping when he was assaulted — solely because of his appearance
● Insult
Ukrainian writer and academic Oleksandra Ivaniuk, who has lived in Poland since 2010 and teaches at the University of Warsaw, was traveling by tram near Washington Roundabout with a friend…
● Detention for deportation
On July 30, 2025, Border Guard officers from the Nadwiślański Unit carried out multiple residence checks in three regions of Poland. Over 100 people were checked, and 17 — from…
● Labour raid
Border Guard officers conducted inspections of three businesses in the Silesian region, reviewing the employment conditions of 49 migrant workers from Indonesia, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, and Azerbaijan. Authorities claim that…
● Physical attack
Two men attacked a kebab shop run by a Bangladeshi citizen, smashing windows and threatening to kill him with a machete. The owner, Anwar Jahid, said: “I couldn’t sleep all…
● Insult
During an open-air yoga session in Ukrainian at Pole Mokotowskie park, three teenage boys disrupted the class after hearing participants speak Ukrainian. They lay on the instructor’s mat, mocked the…
● Detention for deportation
Border Guard officers detained 9 people during residence status checks. Those detained included 4 from Colombia, 1 from Vietnam, 1 from Kyrgyzstan, 1 from Uzbekistan, 1 from the Philippines, and…
● Detention for deportation
Warsaw Border Guard officers deported two Ukrainian nationals following serious legal violations and breaches of residence regulations. One man was handed over by police after being found driving under the…
● Physical attack
A Belarusian man, living in Poland since 2021 after his family fled political persecution, was attacked in Ursus together with his girlfriend. The attackers reportedly mistook him for a Ukrainian.…
● Detention for deportation
Border Guard officers at Warsaw Chopin Airport detained a 34-year-old Iranian woman arriving from Athens for using falsified Bulgarian identity documents. Both the passport she presented and an ID card…
● Physical attack
On 26 July 2025 in the centre of Częstochowa, two citizens of Zimbabwe were ordered to leave a bar by Patryk R. and his companion. After the victims refused, they…
● Police raid
During “Operation HOSTEL”, police raided 20 buildings housing migrants. Five people were detained: two from Georgia, two from Tajikistan, and one from the Philippines — all for irregular stay. They…
● Detention for deportation
Between 22–24 July, Border Guard officers from Bielsko-Biała, together with local police, carried out joint operations targeting people hiding from law enforcement. They checked the residence status of 41 foreign…
● Detention for deportation
Border Guard officers stopped a car driven by a Ukrainian national carrying six Afghan nationals without valid documents, allegedly assisting them in an attempt to cross from Poland into Germany.…
● Detention for deportation
Border Guard officers from the newly established unit in Ruda Śląska detained 2 foreign nationals with prior criminal convictions, while units from Częstochowa, Sosnowiec, and Bielsko-Biała detained 3 more —…
● Physical attack
In the evening of July 20, 2025, in Białystok on Mickiewicza Street, two Belarusian young men were attacked by a group of unknown assailants after a verbal exchange with a…
● Physical attack
During an anti-immigration protest held across several Polish cities, a man from Tunisia affiliated with the local football club Beniaminek 03 was attacked while waiting for food near a restaurant.…
● Detention for deportation
Border Guard officers detained 12 people without valid documents: six from Colombia, one from Indonesia, one from Ghana, one from Cuba, one from Zimbabwe, one from Bangladesh, and one from…
● Labour raid
During a joint operation with the local police, Border Guard officers from Bydgoszcz detained seven Colombian nationals found to be working without required permits or contracts. They initially claimed to…
● Detention for deportation
The Border Guard, in cooperation with Frontex, carried out a return operation for 40 foreign nationals — 27 from Georgia and 13 from Moldova — who were flown out of…
● Detention for deportation
Border Guard officers from Tuplice detained an Afghan man without valid documents and a 56-year-old Polish citizen accused of helping him attempt to cross into Germany. The Afghan national received…
● Physical attack
On 14 July 2025, a 40-year-old Paraguayan man who was legally living and working in Wałbrzych was assaulted by two local men after false allegations that he had filmed children.…
● Detention for deportation
A joint patrol of the Polish Border Guard and Territorial Defence Forces stopped 13 people in a forested area about 3 km from the Lithuanian border. According to the authorities,…
● Insult
During the Eurofolk festival in Zamość, a group of artists from Senegal were verbally harassed with racist slurs in public. The incident occurred while they were walking through the city…
● Detention for deportation
Over a four-day period, Border Guard units from Sosnowiec, Bielsko-Biała, Opole, and Ruda Śląska detained 18 people during checks on residence status. The group included nationals of Colombia, Peru, Bangladesh,…
● Detention for deportation
Border Guard officers from the Carpathian unit detained 5 people — a woman from Colombia, two men from Nigeria, a man from Tajikistan, and a man from Ukraine — for…
● Insult
Lukáš Klemenz, defender for GKS Katowice and former Wisła Kraków player, was spat on and verbally abused because of his skin color. His teammate was also assaulted. Police arrested a…
● Detention for deportation
A 26-year-old Georgian citizen repeatedly drifted a car in the center of Środa Wielkopolska and later got out of the vehicle to perform the lezginka dance. Police stopped him during…
● Physical attack
A 22-year-old Belarusian woman was speaking Russian with her friend near the Księcia Janusza metro station when an adult couple approached them. The woman verbally abused them, used offensive language,…
● Physical attack
On 1 April 2024, in central Warsaw’s Świętokrzyski Park, a group of around 15–20 teenagers attacked a 15-year-old Belarusian boy who was there with a Ukrainian friend riding scooters. The…
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