Jan Malicki: At Least One Of Criminals Was ‘From East’

Kalinowski's programme director spoke about the attack on him in Warsaw.

At the end of December in Warsaw, unknown assailants attacked Jan Malicki, head of the Kastus Kalinowski Centre and director of the Kastus Kalinowski Scholarship Programme, and he was taken to hospital with head injuries.

Now the professor is recovering, he told Rzeczpospolita about the incident and what it may be connected with, as well as his future plans.

Jan Malicki said that the day before the attack he was at a meeting, which ended late. After the event, the man walked through the poorly lit Kazimierowski Park. Two men in police-like uniforms came out to him from the bushes, and the professor thought they were law enforcers.

‘One of them asked me what my name was. I decided that a policeman has the right to come out even from behind the bushes and ask questions. Had it not been for that uniform, I probably would have quickened my step and walked on. But in this situation, I answered. After that I don't remember anything. I regained consciousness on an ambulance stretcher at 10.41 p.m. I lay on the pavement for 20 minutes. There was a huge pool of blood in that place. I don't know who called the ambulance,’ Jan Malicki reported.

The professor suffered a serious head injury: a skull fracture, two haematomas and a concussion. He had a partial memory loss, but is improving steadily.

Jan Malicki believes that at least one of the attackers was ‘from the east’ - possibly from Belarus or Ukraine. He came to such conclusions after he remembered the way the ‘policeman’ built phrases when communicating with him - they were not typical of Poles. The professor is convinced that it was not a hooligan attack - they did not take his money or phone, and he is also sure that they did not want to kill him. The men who attacked the professor have not been found.

‘It was probably an attack designed to intimidate me, the Centre and, possibly, Belarusian emigration in Poland. Especially since another major falsification is coming,’ said the professor.

Malicki noted that what happened will change not a lot for himself:

‘If I survived, it is not for the sake of locking myself in my office. I am not afraid, so I got to do my job. But after what I've been through, I'll be much more careful. <...> I am not responsible for others, but I don't expect the Belarusian, Ukrainian, Russian or any other emigration in Poland to be afraid. They will also continue to do what they are doing.’

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