Cases
● Physical attack
On 7 April 2026 in Raciąż two men attacked a 16-year-old boy from Ukraine. As the police statement of the District Police Headquarters in Płońsk described it: "The findings show…
● 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…
● 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…
● 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…
● 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
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…
● 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…
● Insult
On 24 March 2026 in Aleje Politechniki in Łódź, a man riding an electric scooter hurled xenophobic abuse at a woman from Ukraine who was walking with a child on…
● 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…
● Police raid
Police, Border Guard and tax authorities carried out a large-scale operation at Warsaw's Bakalarska Market in the Włochy district and the Różycki Bazaar, sealing off the markets, checking everyone inside,…
● 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…
● Physical attack
On 13 March 2026, at Primary School No. 12 in Olsztyn, one of the pupils behaved aggressively towards a boy from Ukraine. During a lesson he hit him in the…
● Insult
A passenger on a train was verbally attacked after speaking Ukrainian. According to a video posted online, another passenger first confronted a woman at the bar area and then turned…
● 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 Ukrainians, 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. and…
● 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
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…
● 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. “Get back to…
● Physical attack
On the evening of 26 January 2026, on the eve of the 81st anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau, a Polish man verbally and physically attacked a group of Orthodox…
● 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…
● Physical attack
On the evening of December 19, 2025, a 41-year-old Ukrainian man, Jurij L., was attacked by a group of unidentified young men outside a residential block in Radom. Earlier that…
● 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.…
● Insult
After the death of an 11-year-old girl who was attacked with a knife in Jelenia Góra on 15 December 2025, the tragedy was used as a pretext for a disinformation…
● 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,…
● Physical attack
On 25 October 2025, in a grocery shop at the Market Square in Kazimierz Dolny, an unidentified man used violence against a pupil from Ukraine attending the Jan Koszczyc Witkiewicz…
● Insult
On 24 October 2025 on Zegrzyńska street in Legionowo, unknown perpetrators committed a xenophobic act of hostility against a family with two children from Ukraine. Someone placed in the family's…
● Insult
On 21 October 2025, on a municipal bus in Bielsko-Biała, one of the passengers attacked a 12-year-old dark-skinned boy, a Polish citizen. The man insulted the child with racist abuse…
● Insult
On 2 October 2025, during a physical education lesson at Primary School No. 37 named after Karol Grzesik in Chorzów, a seventh-grade pupil verbally abused a classmate from Ukraine. In…
● 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…
● Physical attack
On 25 September 2025, on an estate on Lubiejewska street in Ostrów Mazowiecka, a local resident attacked an 11-year-old dark-skinned boy. He shouted racist and vulgar insults referring to the…
● 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
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
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…
● 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…
● 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 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…
● 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.
● 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
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 Ukrainian woman reported that in 2025 she and her husband were physically thrown out of a nightclub in Kraków after a security guard heard her Ukrainian accent. According to…
● 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
In August 2025 the "NIGDY WIĘCEJ" Association was informed that a woman living in Turek behaved aggressively towards Ukrainian children playing on the playground on Kościuszki street. According to the…
● 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…
● Insult
On 12 August 2025 Adam Wajrak, a journalist and nature conservation activist, reported on Facebook a xenophobic incident he had witnessed in Bydgoszcz. At the beginning of July, on the…
● 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
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
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 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…