Cases
● 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
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
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…
● 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
A 25-year-old man named Nasir, who was born and raised in Poland, was racially abused in a local shop in Wrocław. A man in the queue told him that 'ciapaci'…
● 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…
● 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…
● 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…
● 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…
● 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…
● 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…
● 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…
● 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…
● 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
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.…
● 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…
● 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
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.…
● 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
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…
● 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…
● 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…
● 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
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…
● 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,…
● Insult
On 2 May 2025 in Płock, the Kenyan-born wife of Wisła Płock head coach Mariusz Misiura was racially harassed in the street while she was walking with their two-and-a-half-year-old son,…
● 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…
● Physical attack
On 3 April 2025, five African residents of the open refugee reception centre in Czerwony Bór were attacked as they walked to the nearest shop, several kilometres away through the…
● Physical attack
On the night of 31 December 2024 into 1 January 2025, in Mszczonów (Żyrardów county, Mazovia), a group of young men attacked four Ukrainian citizens. According to the police, the…
● 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…
● Insult
A Ukrainian woman reported that while she was about 6–7 months pregnant in 2024, she was standing quietly on a tram when an unknown woman, estimated to be 50–55 years…
● 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…
● Physical attack
In August 2023, in Błaszki (Łódzkie Voivodeship), six Latin American migrant workers — a Mexican woman, Rocio Flores, and five Colombians — were threatened with a gun by a representative…
● Insult
In May 2022 a man confronted the staff of a free soup point at Wrocław's main railway station, run by the city's Centre for Refugee Support, which had been set…