Teenagers detained in Poland due to threat of attacks on schools

WARSAW, October 9 – RIA Novosti. Polish police are detaining teenagers en masse due to the threat of knife attacks in schools, the Chief Police Commandant's Office reports.

Earlier, the police said they were checking information that a series of attacks by teenagers armed with knives in educational institutions could be connected with some kind of Internet challenge.

"The tragic events that occurred in recent days in the Mazowieckie Voivodeship provoked a wave of false information in the media space, which caused enormous social anxiety. Unfortunately, there were also people who tried to mark themselves online based on these dramatic events, viewing the human tragedy as an excuse for stupid jokes and expanding their audience," the message said.

“So far, 13 events have corresponded to suspicions of crimes, 10 people have been detained, who will be held accountable mainly for criminal threats,” the police added.

Thus, in the Mokotów district of Warsaw, after receiving information about a security threat on school grounds, a 14-year-old teenager was detained with a knife and 11 firecrackers.

In turn, police from the capital's Srodmiescie district detained a 16-year-old student from one of the local school teams who brought a butterfly knife to an educational institution. Police found a dangerous tool in the teenager's backpack.

In the town of Jozefow near Warsaw, police detained a 14-year-old teenager who was planning to bring a knife to school. The police response followed a report from another student.

Police from the Nowe Bemowo commissariat in Warsaw detained a 13-year-old teenager who posted a photo of a knife in a school chat and threatened another student. The teenager explained that he “did it out of stupidity.”

Police from Pruszkow, near Warsaw, detained two 15-year-old teenagers who posted videos threatening to kill on social networks.