The incident occurred at noon on Tuesday in Legnica. – While carrying out official duties on one of the streets in the city centre, officers from the Property Crime Division of the Municipal Police Headquarters noticed a man behaving strangely – reports Asp. Katarzyna Baniewska of the Legnica police.
She adds:
The police officers immediately stopped the vehicle, thinking that the man needed help. One of them opened the vehicle window, and at that very moment the man, holding a knife, attacked the officer with it.
Fortunately, the officer dodged, which saved him from injury and possibly even death. The knife attacker was detained, and the sharp weapon was secured.
The attacker turned out to be a 38-year-old resident of Legnica, well known to the police because he had been detained several times for driving a car under the influence of drugs.
The prosecutor’s office asked the court to remand the attacker in custody for three months. He faces between one and as many as ten years in prison.