Update
Lubań police on the incident:
The incident occurred on the evening of 27 May 2025 in Lubań, when paramedics were providing the necessary assistance to a 70-year-old man. The suspect was intoxicated and had behaved aggressively from the outset.
While being transported by ambulance to a medical facility in Lubań, the detained man pulled out a knife and threatened the paramedics with it, saying he would kill them. The paramedics restrained the man and notified the police.
Fortunately, the attacked paramedics sustained no bodily injuries. Police officers from the preventive unit of the Lubań police station, alerted to the incident, immediately went to the scene. First, they assisted while hospital staff provided him with medical care, and then they detained the suspect. The man was so heavily intoxicated that procedures involving him were carried out two days later.
The suspect was brought before the District Prosecutor’s Office in Lubań, where he was charged with active assault on a public official and criminal threats. These offences carry a penalty of up to 10 years in prison. By court decision, the man was remanded in custody for three months.
At the request of the District Prosecutor in Lubań, the local court applied pre-trial detention to the 70-year-old resident of Lubań in connection with the offence of which he is accused.
The incident occurred on 27 May 2025 in Lubań. – An emergency medical team was called to a man lying on the pavement who, according to the report, was injured – reports Ewa Węglarowicz-Makowska, press spokeswoman for the District Prosecutor’s Office in Jelenia Góra.
She adds: – The paramedics who arrived at the scene determined that the man lying on the ground was intoxicated and had a head wound. He therefore required further medical assistance.
They decided to take him to hospital. At the scene, the patient adopted what is known as a guard position and directed his aggression at the paramedics. As they were approaching the hospital, he pulled a folding knife from his pocket, with an overall length of 17 cm and a 6.5 cm blade, began waving it and threatened the paramedics with mutilation and death.
Prosecutor: – These threats caused the injured parties to have a justified fear that they would be carried out, as the perpetrator did not calm down while they were providing him with assistance. From gestures and threats to use his fists, he progressed to an active assault with a dangerous tool.
The man was charged and faces up to 10 years in prison. He pleaded not guilty. He gave an explanation, stating that he had been heavily intoxicated and remembered nothing.
The man had no prior convictions.