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A third school attack in less than a week shakes Poland · Best of: Features

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  A third school attack in less than a week shakes Poland. This
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  article is being read by an automated voice generated by Everlet. Warsaw,
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  Poland, the APP. A woman wounded three people inside an educational institution
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  in Poland's capital, Warsaw, on Saturday, police say, in the third attack
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  at a school in less than a week. Blood stains were visible
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  Saturday afternoon on a patch of grass near the entrance to The
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  private post secondary school in they Praga district of Warsaw. The school
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  was open on Saturday, and the victims were submitting papers at the
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  school office when they were attacked, police said. The
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  attack came after police on Saturday said they detained seventy six people
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  across Poland and checked nearly fifty thousand schools nationwide as part of
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  efforts to prevent further violence following two school attacks earlier in the
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  week. The suspect on Saturday used a dangerous object to attack a
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  seventeen year old girl and also wounded two other people. Aged seventeen
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  and twenty four, Jakub Filipiak, a spokesman for Warsaw Police, told The
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  Associated Press None of the wounds were life threatening. The suspect was
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  in custody. On Wednesday, a nineteen year old student at a vocational
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  school in the Mazovian province in central Poland attacked fellow students, teachers
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  and passers by with a sharp object, wounding nine people. He was
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  arrested nearby. The following day a fifteen year old killed a school
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  custodian and wounded two others in a knife attack at his former
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  school in the same province. The assaults, both carried out by Polish
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  nationals, shocked a country where school violence is a new phenomenon. Police
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  say no evidence the attacks were coordinated. So far the government said
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  it had found no evidence that an Internet challenge promoting school attacks
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  was ongoing. There was no official confirmation that the attacks were linked.
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  The attacks happen one after the other, and there is geographic proximity,
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  so you are left wondering if they are not connected. Kappa Rekawek,
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  senior researcher at the International Center for Counterterrorism in the Hague, told
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  the AP. This is essentially a copycat scenario, something of a long
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  trail of attackers going back to at least twenty nineteen, if not
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  decades earlier, he said, referring to Brenton Tarrant, the white supremacist who
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  shot and killed fifty one Muslims at two mosques in Christchurch, New
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  Zealand, in twenty nineteen. Rakowic said that one of the suspects in
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  the latest attacks used the same imagery and aesthetics as Tarrant, which
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  means the Polish incident should be placed within the confines of essentially
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  terrorist behavior. Rumors that The attacks were coordinated and that there would
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  be more on Bloody Friday had been shared Thursday night in parents
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  online groups and by mainstream media. It led to fifty nine schools
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  preemptively suspending classes on Friday across Poland, the majority in Mazovian province.
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  In other schools, principals sent sipages announcing stepped up security measures including
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  extra staff at entrances and backpack, checks. There will be no compromise
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  here. The safety of the youth is the most important thing, Interior
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  Minister Martin Kiervinsky said. Knives confiscated in schools as violence grows. Those
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  detained on Friday include a fourteen year old boy from Warsaw, who
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  was found in possession of a knife with a concealed blade and
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  eleven firecrackers, and a sixteen year old who came to school with
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  a butterfly knife in his backpack, police said. Others had posted online
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  photos of knives, threatened their peers, or threatened school attacks, police said.
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  Parents are now having to catch up fast on how to speak
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  to their kids about school violence. Authorities say extra security measures at
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  schools will continue and crisis training will be organized. The Liberal government
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  also promised to renew efforts to pass a bill blocking harmful online
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  content. If that juvenile attacker had streamed the crime online today, we
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  would have been unable to block that content because we have not
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  been given that legal tool, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said. After allegedly
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  killing the school custodian and wounding two adults in Thursday's attack, the
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  fifteen year old, who wore a camera to record his actions, was
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  eventually overpowered by school principal Christoph Ochmainsky. Ochmainsky later told reporters
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  there was a moment when the boy seemed to realize the enormity
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  of his actions, and said he did not want to do this
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  any more. Once I had established contact he asked me for help,
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  Ochmainsky recounted. It got to the point where he wanted a hug.