Cases
● 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
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
On 20 December 2025 the Przegląd Sportowy Onet portal published an article about the peer violence experienced by the 15-year-old daughter of Jurij Gladyr, a volleyball player of the Aluron…
● 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
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…
● 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…
● 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…
● Physical attack
A Ukrainian woman was attacked in Warsaw’s Praga district by an unidentified man while walking with two Belarusian friends near market stalls. According to her mother, the man accused the…
● 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…
● 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
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…
● 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 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…
● 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…
● Insult
On 19 July 2025 a "Stop immigration" march organised by Konfederacja passed through the streets of Warsaw, as part of a nationwide day of anti-immigration protests. Among the participants were…
● Insult
On 4 March 2025, on metro line 2 in Warsaw, on the section from Praga-Północ towards Śródmieście, one of the passengers made vulgar, xenophobic comments. He began his tirade at…
● 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…
● Insult
In March 2023 the "NIGDY WIĘCEJ" Association was informed about months of harassment suffered by a boy from Ukraine living in the Bródno district of Warsaw. The harassment came from…
● Insult
On 2 September 2022 on Rozłucka street in Warsaw's Praga-Południe district, aggressive men and a woman accompanying them attacked a group of teenagers from Ukraine with vulgar, xenophobic abuse. They…
● Insult
In late August 2022, two employees of a public preschool in the Stare Bielany area of Warsaw made racist remarks about a boy from a Polish-African family who had just…
● Physical attack
On the evening of 9 April 2022, at around 8:55 p.m., a man attacked two Ukrainian women on tram line 33 at the Park Olszyna stop in Warsaw. One of…