– We have obtained an assessment of the perpetrator’s mental health. At present, he is unable to participate in procedural activities and must remain in a psychiatric ward – says prosecutor Lidia Tkaczyszyn, press spokesperson for the District Prosecutor’s Office in Legnica.

The attacker is staying in a secure psychiatric ward. Investigators want to charge the man with attempted murder. (For now, this is impossible because of his mental health.)

Such a crime may carry a sentence of even life imprisonment.

Let us recall. The incident occurred during the night of 24–25 March in an ambulance travelling along the A4 motorway in Legnica County. A patient suspected of having coronavirus attacked a 32-year-old paramedic with a knife: he stabbed him several times.

– The man was being transported by ambulance to a psychiatric hospital. The ambulance had been called because of his abnormal, psychotic behaviour – prosecutor Lidia Tkaczyszyn, press spokesperson for the District Prosecutor’s Office in Legnica, explained yesterday. There is currently no information confirming that the perpetrator was infected with the virus.

The paramedics began to defend themselves and pushed the aggressor out of the ambulance. He then fled. He was arrested after a police pursuit.

The attacked paramedic, a resident of Nowa Ruda (between Wałbrzych and Kłodzko), was taken to a hospital in Bolesławiec with numerous stab wounds to the chest and a collapsed lung. He is isolated. His life is not in danger.

The Medical Rescue Team in Chojnów on the incident:

Attack on a paramedic! (By a patient suspected of having coronavirus!)

Tonight, 25 March 2020, the medical rescue team from Kłodzko, D01 10, transported a patient to an infectious psychiatric ward.

At approximately 2:00 a.m., a drama unfolded in an ambulance at the 73rd kilometre of the A4 motorway. A paramedic was attacked with a knife by a patient. The ambulance stopped at a motorway exit. After striking the paramedic approximately eight times in the chest, the patient fled from the ambulance, and the Police were notified.

D0215 from Legnica and D0217 from Chojnów teams were dispatched to help the injured man. Then, after the Police closed the motorway and Fire Service units secured the site, the Polish Medical Air Rescue helicopter “Ratownik 13” landed.

After the victim’s condition had been stabilised, the injured paramedic was taken to the hospital in Bolesławiec, where he underwent surgery.

Piotrek is doing well.

The entire rescue community wishes him a speedy recovery!