When someone puts a knife on a spear and strikes a Polish state officer with it at the state border, they are not any kind of refugee, but a plain criminal," said Poland's Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski. "We demand that the Belarusian authorities determine the identity of this murderer and hand him over to the Polish authorities," he added.
Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski spoke during a Civic Coalition rally in Poznań. "It's indeed a sad day, a Polish soldier has died. He fulfilled the soldier's oath of defending the homeland, unfortunately, by giving his blood and life for it," he said.
"When someone puts a knife on a spear and strikes a Polish state officer with it at the state border, they are not any kind of refugee, but a plain criminal," the minister stressed.
Sikorski announced that a protest note would be handed to the Belarusian chargé d'affaires at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
"We demand that the Belarusian authorities determine the identity of this murderer and hand him over to the Polish authorities as part of the ongoing investigation by our Ministry of Justice," he informed.
The death of the soldier stabbed at the Polish-Belarusian border
The General Command of the Armed Forces reported the soldier's death earlier on Thursday.
"With sadness, we inform that on June 6th, in the afternoon hours, the soldier from the 1st Armored Brigade, who was stabbed, passed away at the Military Medical Institute in Warsaw, surrounded by the support of family and soldiers," the statement read.
"Despite the assistance provided in the area of the thuggish attack at the border with Belarus and the efforts of doctors, his life could not be saved," it stated.
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