Cases
● 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 —…
● 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…
● 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.…
● Physical attack
In mid-July 2025, in front of the Galaxy shopping centre in the centre of Szczecin, two residents of the city attacked a 16-year-old boy from Ukraine. According to the account…
● 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
On 9 July 2025 a "march against immigration" organised by Młodzież Wszechpolska and Ruch Narodowy passed through the streets of Łódź. Among the participants were Łukasz Rzepecki (Konfederacja, Nowa Nadzieja),…
● 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,…
● Discrimination
On 23 May 2025, during a family picnic at Primary School No. 3 in Sosnowiec, a staged islamophobic performance was presented to children and parents. A historical re-enactment group showed…
● 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…
● 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…
● Insult
On 24 February 2025 on the Market Square in Leszno, a dozen or so men associated with the informal far-right group Patrol Obywatelski Leszno disrupted a ceremony organised on the…
● Discrimination
On 17 January 2025 the local press in Lublin described offensive comments that Katarzyna Kasprzycka, a teacher at the 9th Secondary School (IX Liceum Ogólnokształcące), was said to have made…
● 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…
● Physical attack
On 7 October 2024 in Szczecin, a drunk 46-year-old passenger, Artur O., attacked a Ukrainian taxi driver, Vladyslav T., during a ride from Odzieżowa Street to Zawadzkiego Street. Near the…
● Insult
On the night of 21–22 September 2024, in the Turzyn estate in Szczecin, unknown perpetrators destroyed a mosaic on a wall that promoted good relations between the Polish and Ukrainian…
● Physical attack
On 24 August 2024, near a grocery shop on Pocztowa street in Szczecin, 42-year-old Tomasz A. attacked a family from Ukraine. He heard a father speaking Ukrainian with his small…
● 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
On the evening of 28 January 2024, on Kazimierska street in Szczecin, unknown perpetrators threw a firecracker onto the balcony of a flat inhabited by a family with children from…
● Physical attack
On 20 November 2023, in a school in Pisarzowice in the Bielsko county, three 13-year-old pupils beat an 11-year-old schoolmate from Ukraine. The attack took place on the school grounds…
● Physical attack
On 21 October 2023 in Piekoszów near Kielce, a 36-year-old resident, Szczepan B., brutally beat a 12-year-old boy, a refugee from Ukraine. When the man saw two Ukrainian boys walking…
● Insult
On 17 October 2023, an advertisement for a T-shirt inciting violence against Ukrainian children appeared on the Instagram profile "kibicowskim_zyciem", run from Kolbuszowa Dolna. The graphic on the shirt showed…
● Physical attack
On 31 August 2023, on one of the municipal sports pitches in the Komorowice district of Bielsko-Biała, a group of teenagers brutally beat two brothers who were refugees evacuated from…
● Insult
On 15 August 2023 on Katowicka street in Racibórz, a dark-skinned teenager who had just left a kebab bar was subjected to racist abuse and threats by a passer-by. 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 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…
● Physical attack
On 7 January 2023, at a tram stop on Królewska street in Lublin, two men attacked a Ukrainian woman, her 13-year-old son and her adult, heavily pregnant daughter. The attack…
● 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 3 August 2022, near the city park in Pińczów, a 30-year-old local man attacked a 16-year-old resident of the town because of his skin colour. He…
● Physical attack
On 16 July 2022 on Jagiellońska street in Sosnowiec, an unidentified woman attacked a Ukrainian citizen who was waiting at a bus stop with her three-year-old daughter. The attacker heard…
● Insult
On 9 June 2022, between 4:25 and 4:45 p.m. in Katowice, a man verbally attacked a teenage boy from Ukraine. The aggression began at the Brynów Centrum Przesiadkowe interchange and…