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On Sunday, December 21, there was a domestic dispute in Warsaw‘s Białołęka district. At one point, a woman ran out of the apartment, calling for help. — Then her former partner took her 9-year-old son out of the house and went away with him in an unknown direction — she described nadkom in an interview with Onet. Paulina Onyszko from the Warsaw District Police Headquarters VI.
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The man had been staying in Poland legally since 2024. The officers determined that the 36-year-old was not the biological father of the child. During an intensive search, a man and a 9-year-old were located. – We are talking to him to give the boy to his mother – the police informed. According to our unofficial findings, the man and the boy barricaded themselves in the yard of his house. Anti-terrorists were called to the site. “Fakt” reporters found out that the 36-year-old used violence against her when he visited the woman. The man was allegedly carrying an object resembling a knife.
Child abduction in Warsaw. The end of the police manhunt
After midnight, the services’ operations ended with the man’s capture. “The man refused to cooperate with the police for many hours and did not want to give up the child, keeping him in the green areas at Obrazkowa Street. Thanks to the involvement and determination of police negotiators and the coordinated actions of officers from the Warsaw VI District Police Headquarters and various departments of the Warsaw Police Headquarters, as well as the Police Prevention Department, the boy has already been taken from the man and is under the care of medical services. Activities are in progress,” we read further in the police statement.
— The action of detaining the man was very dynamic, so we need to check whether the child was okay both during the detention and earlier. It’s cold in Warsaw, so we also need to check whether the child is hypothermic, explained Junior Inspector. Robert Szumiata.
— Our priority was to free the boy and put him in his mother’s care. We know that there was an argument in the woman’s apartment. The man wasn’t really able to rationally explain why he took the child, the officer added.
The policeman did not want to reveal the details of the action and whether the 36-year-old threatened to use a knife. He emphasized that the police’s priority was to de-escalate the tension and ensure the boy’s safety. — The man is in the hands of the police. Activities will be carried out with him during the day. He will be interrogated, we will want to know his motives, why he took the child from its mother. We will also want to question the mother. It is too early to say now what legal consequences the man may face, emphasized Junior Ins. Robert Szumiata. The police will also check whether the man was under the influence of psychoactive substances.
