The incident occurred on March 6, at around 2:00 p.m., on Bohaterów Getta Street in Bolesławiec. What police had confirmed so far was that the aggressor verbally attacked the driver and deliberately damaged his car. As it turns out, he also pulled out an air gun and fired.
As Bolesławiec police reported today:
Yesterday afternoon, as a result of operational activities, Bolesławiec police officers arrested a resident of Legnica suspected of aggressive behavior and using an air gun in Bolesławiec on March 6. Activities involving the detainee are ongoing.
The injured driver called us and told us the whole story.
My fiancée and I were returning from Zgorzelec to Bolesławiec. We were already past the roundabout, near the Orlen station. At that time of day, it is difficult to leave the station. Suddenly I saw a man pull out in a van without looking at anyone and turn left toward the city center, but he drove into the lane going against traffic. The drivers began honking at him. I thought he was about to enter another property and had only taken a shortcut, but he simply started driving straight at me. So I honked at him too. He then drove straight through the traffic lights as far as Hebe. I happened to be going there as well. When he stopped near the drugstore, I slowed down and asked him through the window if he was serious. He shouted at me: “Get out of that car or I’ll f**king k**l you! Get the f**k out of that car!” I shouted something back at him. He opened the door, hit my car and damaged the bumper. My fiancée was frightened and wanted to throw cold coffee at him so he would not run up to us. Unfortunately, she spilled the coffee inside the car. I could see that the van driver was aggressive, so I drove on, trying to find a safe place.
After a while, I noticed that he was following us. I turned onto Targowa, a side street by the market. Then I turned right onto Bohaterów Getta. At that point, the man drove into the middle of the intersection, forced another driver to yield and blocked my way. He stopped his car next to me in such a way that I could not do anything. He jumped out of the vehicle and aimed a gun at me. I saw that he was pointing it straight at my head—I panicked, ducked and heard a shot. I saw smoke or dust; he got back into the car and drove away through a red light.
I quickly got out of the car and ran up to the young man whom the courier had forced to yield. I asked whether he had seen the gun. He said he had. So I asked him to follow the van and at least write down the registration number. He did, but returned and said he had had no chance because the man flew through red lights near the courthouse in the van and continued speeding away.
I called the police right afterward. The officers looked for a shell casing and asked whether I had smelled gunpowder. I was in shock: “No one has ever pointed a gun at me.” On Friday, when they showed me photographs of suspects, I recognized that man without hesitation: “I will never forget those black eyes.”
I am telling all this because I do not understand how someone can pull out a gun during an ordinary road incident. “You can argue, honk, but point a pistol at someone?” That crosses every boundary.”