On the morning of Feb. 28, 2026, a 28-year-old Colombian migrant brutally assaulted Ania, a 49-year-old Polish woman on her way to work in Kutno. The assault came after Ania ignored the Colombian man’s verbal abuse. He beat the woman so badly that she had to be taken to the hospital.
Despite initially fleeing the scene of his crime, police were able to use surveillance footage to arrest the man on March 2, writes wPolityce, based on a report from wPolsce24 TV by Stanisław Pyrzanowski.
The Colombian man, charged with, among other things, bodily harm and endangering the life of 49-year-old Ania, had just returned from the front line in Ukraine.
“Ms. Ania is an incredibly brave woman. What we heard from her son is chilling, but Ms. Ania’s family wants to talk about it. They want our society to hear her voice, a warning about what could happen to us,” the journalist noted. He also provided further disturbing details from the scene of the crime.
“There’s still blood on the sidewalk here in the very center of Kutno. (…) There are traces of blood everywhere on the sidewalk. The foreigner attacked her from behind, punched her. Then, as she lay on the ground, she tried to cover her face, put her hands over her head. The man, however, pulled her hands away and continued to hit her, only on the head and face. There’s blood everywhere on the marble in the very center of Kutno. We’re near St. Lawrence Church in the very center of the city. It didn’t happen at night; in the morning, Mrs. Ania was walking to work, taking the same route as every day. She was walking and was attacked in broad daylight. It was early, 4:30 a.m., but in the past, when we spoke with Kutno residents, such things simply didn’t happen. Residents say everyone warned each other, locked their doors. There wasn’t such a need in the past,” reported Pyrzanowski.
He additionally outlined the terrible physical condition of the beaten woman.
“Ania has already been released from the hospital. We received photos from her son showing her current condition. Her face is swollen, with stitches visible. She’s swollen all over, her eyes are black, terrifying. I’m shocked, and the fundamental question is: where is the Women’s Strike now? Where are the protests? ‘You will not walk alone.’ I’m waiting, I want to see a very strong opposition, especially from women and women’s support groups,” he said.
The report out of wPolsce24 TV also featured Ania’s own son.
“My mother was walking to work this morning. (…) A stranger approached her and grabbed her hand. My mother told him to step aside. She didn’t shout or say anything that might have provoked him. She kept walking, picking up speed. The man approached her again, grabbed her hand, and as if he wanted to touch her cheek with his. So my mother raised her voice, because that was touching. She told him to step aside. She picked up speed and continued walking towards her work. And then the man ran up and punched her in the back of the head. My mother fell, and the torture began, because you can hardly call it a beating,” said Ania’s son.
“This case has so many different threads, demonstrating the level of aggression we may soon encounter regularly when Ukrainian soldiers return from the trenches,” Pyrzanowski said during his report.
