In Poland, a 39-year-old officer from the Central Bureau of Investigation will face trial for threatening a Ukrainian taxi driver, RMF24 reports.
According to the outlet, during the night from Friday to Saturday (July 25–26), police officers were called to a gas station on Kielecka Street in the city of Radom.
“It involved insults and criminal threats made by a drunk taxi passenger against the driver, a citizen of Ukraine,” said junior inspector Dorota Wiatr-Kurżawa.
It was later revealed that the person threatening the Ukrainian was a 39-year-old officer of the Central Bureau of Investigation — an experienced policeman with 19 years of service.
Law enforcement determined that the threats and insults directed at the Ukrainian citizen had a nationalist undertone.
The officer was held in a detention cell until he sobered up. Later, he was charged with making criminal threats. Radom Prosecutor’s Office representative Aneta Góźdź stated that a non-custodial preventive measure was applied to the 39-year-old suspect.
For threatening the Ukrainian, the officer now faces up to 3 years in prison. However, the charges could be expanded due to the nationalist nature of the threats.
As a result of the incident, the Central Bureau of Investigation launched an internal investigation.
“We are awaiting the results of the prosecutor’s office. The further development of our case will depend on them. In the first stage, an explanatory proceeding will be initiated, which will most likely turn into a disciplinary procedure,” said the spokesperson for the head of the Central Bureau of Investigation, sub-inspector Krzysztof Wrześniowski.
In early July it was reported that four Ukrainians had been detained in Poland.
They are suspected of abducting migrants in order to demand ransom.
Polish officer faces trial for threatening Ukrainian taxi driver – RBC-Ukraine
