Several witnesses contacted a police station on Wilcza Street after seeing a man wave an axe in the Gdańsk waterfront area of Warsaw. Officers circulated his description among patrols and examined the route leading toward the Vistula boulevards.

inPoland.net.pl reported the case on Monday, October 26. Investigators obtained surveillance footage showing the suspect and distributed the images to officers serving in the city centre.

An off-duty officer travelling to work spotted a man matching the description on public transport. He followed him after he left the bus and entered an Asian restaurant on Aluzyjna Street in the Białołęka district, where a patrol detained him.

Police identified the suspect as a 31-year-old Polish citizen with multiple previous convictions. He had more than two per mille of alcohol in his blood when arrested and admitted the offence after sobering up. He was charged with exposing another person to the risk of death or serious injury, with the conduct classified as hooliganism. The Warsaw Śródmieście-Północ District Prosecutor’s Office is supervising the proceedings.