Swietokrzyskie

17th July 2009

A 25-year-old ran amok with a knife in a Staszow church in the middle of Mass last Sunday, injuring three female members of the congregation. Elzbieta Lasota, an eye-witness, told TVN24 reporters, “I looked round and there was a man of about 30, slim, tall, blond, holding a knife against someone’s neck. People tried to escape in panic.”

The man’s last act was to stab himself in the throat, missing his carotid artery by millimetres, before being restrained by male members of the church.

It later emerged that the young man, who had no previous criminal record, had been on an amphetamine binge. Father Henryk Kozakiewicz said the young man told him, “I’ve felt I’m being followed ...