PL incident archive
Source-backed homicide and attempted homicide records documented in PL. This page summarizes the archive's documented floor for the country; it is not an official total or a representative sample.
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- Documented records
- 13
- Cities represented
- 13
- Latest incident date
- 24 September 2026
- Latest review
- 26 September 2026
Documented floor by year
| Year | Documented here | Official reference |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 10 records | — |
| 2025 | 2 records | — |
| 2000 | 1 record | — |
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Current judicial status
- 6Alleged
- 7Charged
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- Kędzierzyn-Koźle, PL
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- Katowice, PL
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- Krakow, PL
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- Gryfice, PL
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- Swarzedz, PL
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- Radzymin, PL
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Latest documented records
- Homicide in krasnik gorny, PL
· Alleged · 1 source
A 29-year-old police officer was shot in the head and killed during a police operation at Kraśnik Górny, near Bolesławiec in Lower Silesia, on Thursday 24 September 2026. Officers from the district police headquarters in Bolesławiec were carrying out operational activities against a person suspected of thefts. At about 11:00 a shooting broke out on the grounds of one of the properties. According to the regional prosecutor's office in Jelenia Góra, a 33-year-old man who returned home while the police operation was under way fired twice in the direction of the officers. One of the bullets struck the 29-year-old officer in the head. An air ambulance was called immediately and flew him to hospital, where doctors fought for many hours to save his life. He did not survive. The death was reported on 25 September. The man who fired was detained at the scene by the remaining officers and was not injured.
- Homicide in jaroslaw, PL
· Charged · 1 source
A priest was killed and four other people were injured in a knife attack at the convent of the Benedictine Sisters in Jarosław, in Podkarpackie voivodeship, before midday on Thursday 24 September 2026. On the investigators' account, the suspect entered the convent kitchen, took a knife and attacked five people — four men and a woman. The priest, who had tried to stop the attacker, died. Two of the injured remain in a serious condition in hospital in Jarosław, and their condition had not worsened as of the Friday. The injured woman is being treated in hospital in Przeworsk. On 26 September a court granted the district prosecutor's application and imposed three months' pre-trial detention on the suspect, a 31-year-old Ukrainian citizen, running until 23 December 2026. The court specified that the detention should be served in hospital conditions. The suspect was not brought to the hearing because of his state of health, and is to be placed in a medical facility with a reinforced security wing; the prosecution has not disclosed which.
- Homicide in kędzierzyn-koźle, PL
· Charged · 2 sources
Ciało kobiety zostało znalezione w lesie 28 sierpnia 2026 roku w Kędzierzynie-Koźlu. Sprawę zakwalifikowano jako brutalne zabójstwo. 2 września 2026 roku opolscy policjanci zatrzymali podejrzanego 19-latka. Przy mężczyźnie znaleziono nóż oraz młotek. Podczas przesłuchania przyznał się do zamordowania kobiety. Na wniosek prokuratury sąd zastosował wobec niego tymczasowy areszt na trzy miesiące. Za zabójstwo i usiłowanie zabójstwa drugiej osoby grozi mu nawet dożywocie.
- Homicide in gryfice, PL
· Alleged · 1 source
A 42-year-old woman was killed with an axe in the village of Skalin, in Gryfice County in Poland's West Pomeranian Voivodeship, on Monday 25 August 2026. Her body was found in a residential garden. Her 21-year-old son was detained late that evening on suspicion of the killing. Prosecutors declined to disclose a motive, and charges were expected to be brought the following day. Investigators were interviewing witnesses and family members.
- Homicide in krakow, PL
· Alleged · 2 sources
The body of a woman of about 70 was found in an apartment on Fatimska Street in the Bieńczyce district of Kraków, Poland, shortly after 5pm on Monday 24 August 2026. A seriously injured man was found at the same address and was taken to hospital immediately. The district prosecutor's office in Kraków opened an investigation into the woman's killing, stating that preliminary findings indicated homicide. Investigators recovered what they described as the weapon used; the prosecutor's office declined to say what it was, but confirmed it was not a firearm. The injured man was identified by the prosecutor's office as the victim's 41-year-old son. He was in a life-threatening condition and remained in a pharmacologically induced coma following surgery, and had therefore not been questioned; investigators said they were waiting for him to regain consciousness and for medical clearance to interview him. The investigation was opened into the offence rather than against any named person. No arrest or charge had been announced at the time of the cited reports.
- Homicide in swarzedz, PL
· Charged · 3 sources
A 46-year-old woman was shot in the head on a stairwell of a building on ul. Wielka Rybacka in Swarzędz, about 15 kilometres east of Poznań, at around 3.25pm on Saturday 15 August 2026. A passer-by found her unconscious and she was taken to hospital in serious condition. She died there on the evening of Tuesday 18 August. Her former partner, a 51-year-old man, is accused of shooting her with a black-powder weapon. He fled the scene and hid for two days before officers of the criminal department detained him in Swarzędz on the evening of Sunday 16 August; he indicated a rucksack containing the weapon, which was seized for laboratory examination. He admitted the act in questioning and, according to the prosecution service, said he had done it because he could not accept the couple's separation about a month earlier. He was charged with attempted murder at the district prosecutor's office in Poznań-Wilda and remanded in custody. After the victim died the charge was upgraded to murder, which carries a possible sentence of life imprisonment.
- Homicide in warszawa, PL
· Alleged · 1 source
The body of a 53-year-old woman was found in an apartment in the Ochota district of Warsaw over the weekend of 1-2 August 2026, concealed in a shopping bag and in an advanced state of decomposition. Police discovered her while assisting with a welfare check requested by a resident of the building. The date of the killing has not been established in public reporting. A 32-year-old man was detained the same day in the Włochy district of the city and admitted to the act. He was placed in a detention facility and further investigative steps are planned. No charge has been reported.
- Homicide in chojna, PL
· Alleged · 1 source
A woman was killed in Chojna, in the Gryfino district of West Pomerania, and her body was found at around 10:00 on Monday 20 July 2026. Officers from the prevention division, tracker dogs and drones were deployed in the search for the suspect, with support from officers in Szczecin. Her 19-year-old son was detained as the probable perpetrator less than three hours after the body was found. According to reporting from the scene, the killing is believed to have arisen from family disputes. The case has been taken over by the district prosecutor's office in Gryfino. No charge decision has been reported.
- Homicide in biała podlaska, PL
· Alleged · 1 source
The victim, a Russian dissident artist and satirist who had sought political asylum in Poland, was shot multiple times at his residence in Biała Podlaska. The suspect, arrested days later, has declined to confess or make statements. A court has upheld his pre-trial detention, citing flight risk and the severity of the charges; investigators are examining whether the killing was commissioned by a foreign intelligence service.
- Homicide in wroclaw, PL
· Charged · 1 source
A 25-year-old man was killed in a flat on ulica Jaworska in Wrocław in April 2026. He had been stabbed three times in the chest. The suspect, a 27-year-old Dutch national, was sought internationally, detained in Belgium and extradited to Poland. He faces a possible sentence of life imprisonment. A 44-year-old Polish woman has been charged as an accomplice.
- Homicide in katowice, PL
· Charged · 2 sources
A 34-year-old man from Katowice was abducted in the middle of September 2025 and later killed. According to the investigation, the perpetrators lured him out of his flat, bound him and pushed him into a car. His body was found on 29 November 2025 in a cemetery in the village of Żytno, near Radomsko in the Łódź Voivodeship, having been thrown into an elderly woman's grave; his identity was confirmed by DNA testing. The main suspect left Poland after the killing and was detained in Ostrava, in the Czech Republic, in October 2025 under a European Arrest Warrant on suspicion of the abduction. He was extradited to Poland by the Silesian department of the National Prosecutor's Office for organised crime and corruption. On 27 August 2026 he was charged with offences including participation in an armed criminal group, homicide committed with particular cruelty, and trafficking in significant quantities of narcotics. The court granted the prosecution's application and remanded him in custody for three months. According to unofficial information from the investigation reported by the sources, the background to the abduction was a conflict within the football hooligan scene with which the victim was connected. Six men associated with the same supporters' group have been detained in the case. The exact date of the killing has not been established from the available reporting. It occurred between the abduction in mid-September 2025 and the discovery of the body on 29 November 2025.
- Homicide in mlawa, PL
· Charged · 2 sources
A 16-year-old girl was killed in Mława, in Poland's Masovian Voivodeship, on the evening of 23 April 2025, the day she met the suspect. She was reported missing the following day, and her body was found on 1 May 2025 in scrubland near a production plant belonging to the suspect's family. A post-mortem examination found that she died of extensive head injuries caused by multiple blows. The suspect, who was 17 at the time, was known to the victim and was charged in May 2025 with murder committed with particular cruelty. He was detained in Greece and surrendered to Poland under a European Arrest Warrant. On 13 August 2026 the district prosecutor's office in Płock closed its investigation and filed an indictment against him, now 18, at the regional court in Płock. Twenty witnesses were questioned and 21 expert opinions obtained during the proceedings. He faces up to 30 years' imprisonment and remains in pre-trial detention until the end of September. Experts assessed that his mental state allows him to take part in the proceedings and conduct his own defence.
- Homicide in radzymin, PL
· Charged · 1 source
Two teenage girls disappeared in Radzymin, in Masovia, on 6 August 2000. They had been at a local fête with friends and were due home at about eleven o'clock at night, but never reached the meeting arranged with their parents. Despite the involvement of the police and of the local community, it was not established for more than twenty years what had happened to them. The proceedings were discontinued and their bodies were never found. Officers of the homicide and criminal terror unit of the metropolitan police headquarters reopened the investigation. Analysis of the evidence, and a reconstruction of the sequence of events at the fête, identified the people who had last seen the two girls alive. Two men who had been in the victims' company on the day of the disappearance were charged with their murder in connection with repeated collective rape, and an indictment against them was filed with the court. A third suspect, a 45-year-old already serving a sentence for similar offences, was not ultimately included in the indictment for want of sufficient evidence. The metropolitan police said close cooperation between the National Prosecutor's Office and the unit's officers had allowed the proceedings to be concluded.