{"id":534170,"date":"2026-04-16T14:51:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T11:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=534170"},"modified":"2026-04-16T15:44:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T12:44:05","slug":"polish-prosecutors-launch-investigation-after-belarusian-attacked-on-nationality-grounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/polish-prosecutors-launch-investigation-after-belarusian-attacked-on-nationality-grounds","title":{"rendered":"Polish Prosecutors Launch Investigation After Belarusian Attacked on Nationality Grounds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The district prosecutor&#8217;s office in Hajn\u00f3wka in Poland&#8217;s Podlasie region has launched an investigation into an attack on a Belarusian man motivated by national hatred, Radio Bia\u0142ystok <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radio.bialystok.pl\/wiadomosci\/index\/id\/260149\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The victim, a Belarusian citizen, works as a taxi driver. At night, he picked up a passenger. While paying for the ride, the passenger heard the driver&#8217;s eastern accent and began threatening and pushing him.<\/p>\n<p>The driver warned that everything was being recorded on video, but the passenger continued insulting and threatening the Belarusian man.<\/p>\n<p>A recording of the incident was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.radio.bialystok.pl\/wiadomosci\/index\/id\/260149\">published<\/a> by the Centre for Monitoring Racist and Xenophobic Behaviour. The centre asked for help in identifying the aggressor and filed a complaint with the prosecutor&#8217;s office in Hajn\u00f3wka. Later, the victimised driver also filed a complaint.<\/p>\n<p>A prosecutor&#8217;s office representative told the outlet that investigators already have all the necessary materials for the case. The victim is expected to be questioned in the near future. The attacker&#8217;s identity is still being established.<\/p>\n<p>The case is being investigated as a public attack motivated by national hatred. The offence carries a sentence of up to five years in prison.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The district prosecutor&#8217;s office in Hajn\u00f3wka in Poland&#8217;s Podlasie region has launched an investigation into an attack on a Belarusian man motivated by national hatred, Radio Bia\u0142ystok reported. The victim, a Belarusian citizen, works as a taxi driver. At night, he picked up a passenger. While paying for the ride, the passenger heard the driver&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":534169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/69e0d9990515d.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Polish Prosecutors Launch Investigation After Belarusian Attacked on Nationality Grounds"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338,143127,143094],"tags":[143248],"class_list":["post-534170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news","category-society","category-incident","tag-polsha"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534170\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}