A Mayor of the city of Gdansk murdered at WOSP charity finals in Poland

In case nobody noticed, Pawel Adamowicz, a Mayor of the city of Gdansk, was murdered 13.01 at WOSP charity finals in Gdansk, Poland.

He was an opposition activist in the People's Republic of Poland and a mayor of the city since 1998. He was later described as a friendly to people, close to the public, good man.

He was stabbed by a person described as a random, crazy, drug-addict bank robber.

There are two main speculations about the motives; first is that it was lined with "the politics of hatred" from the ruling party PiS (Prawo i Sprawiedliwosc - Law and Justice), and second that it was a murder on commission of a fascist, nationalistic grouping MW (Mlodziez Wszechpolska - All-Polish Youth).

WOSP (Wielka Orkiestra Swiatecznej Pomocy - Great Orchestra of Christmas Help) is a nationwide (and somehow worldwide) charity collecting money for the hospitals, mostly areligious and apolitical (if anything, patriotic and libertarian), considered an opposition and in that case hated by nowadays leading Polish right-wing.

PiS would accuse everyone of contributing to the plane crash in Smolensk, 2010, accuse Lech Walesa, leader of Solidarity, of working with the communists, takeover public television and radio (with similar behaviors regarding the press, censoring one of the newspapers in the previous term), takeover Constitutional Court and -- develop social policy, refer to the Church.

Now they pushed a President of WOSP, Jurek Owsiak to resign but due to his social support he reconsiders that decision.

Gdansk is being considered symbolic as it was the city the World War 2 began in and the city where the anti-communist protests began in the 70s.

A President and the lobbying leader of PiS is Jaroslaw Kaczynski, whose twin brother, Lech Kaczynski, a President of Poland, died in the plane crash.
 
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