Gang crime from the east of Georgia and Ukraine has reached specified a level that information and alarm signals about it begin to penetrate even mainstream media. – Organized crime groups from the east are increasing stronger, destroying order and safety in our country, due to the fact that compared to another criminals erstwhile they bargain or rob, they are ruthless and violent said Przemysław Talkowski in Polsat News program "State in the State". Guests, including erstwhile and current police officers, referred to the analogy with the situation in Poland in the late 1990s and early 1990s.
– They threw themselves at me, a fewer masked men, and they beat me on the head very hard, my hands tied, and the horror started. – said Witold Bachaj, an entrepreneur attacked in his own house. – 4 of them were 100 percent Ukrainian citizens, I'm working a lot with Ukrainians, too. – he added.
The perpetrators entered at night, breaking the window. They tied the host, tortured him, poured hot water and chemicals on him. They utilized knives, too. They demanded the code to the safe. They robbed money and jewelry. They threatened to “shoot” the household in the event of a police call.
– I had both wrists broken and blood was moving out of my head. Well, in my case, he's a Georgian citizen. – said Bożena Pieszkiewicz, the victim of another robbery.
– We have no problem with refugees or migrants from the east who work honestly in our country. We have a problem with bandits from the east who work in an organized group – reserved the host of the broadcast.
There's a resemblance, but that's different.
The '90s are hard to compare. My colleagues here at the studio know very well that this crime in the 1990s afraid Polish mafia, organized criminal groups, while banditism will always be a banditism – said the junior inspector Robert Szumiata of the Metropolitan Police Command. He pointed out that among the perpetrators of peculiarly violent assaults now dominate the “guest” from Georgia and Ukraine
– I think they're greedy. They know that there are many businesses in Warsaw, for example, there are rich people – he said.
Przemysław Talkowski referred to information from Lt. Col. Lasza Bregwadze, a erstwhile prison service worker fighting organised crime in Georgia. According to him, “there are 5 alleged sacks in the order, the most dangerous, the highest rank of bandits from the east, including Georgia”.
Mariusz Sokołowski, a erstwhile officer of the Police Headquarters, was asked if a script from Sweden might repeat in Poland, which does not cope with the crime of immigrants.
– We have a large problem, and we request to take any action. Along with a large number of foreigners who have come to us across the east border, a truly large part of this criminal planet has arrived, and he's been spreading around for now. Whether we're going to be nineties or not, time will tell, but we don't. – the answer was answered.
An ex-police officer recalled that the justice and police authorities succeeded in breaking up the mafia from the 1990s, but it lasted much more than a decade.
– And now the point is that we should not gotta deal again with groups that acted like those groups – very brutally – and only take action. We must take them now so that this crime does not develop. There's a hazard that, unfortunately, if the police don't take the appropriate measures, if we don't patch up the staff gap very rapidly in the police, there's gonna be a lot more, much more. – warned Mariusz Sokołowski.
– Today, it is the effort of this country. How long can that be? present we are dealing with groups that are jumping into our country, doing many crimes and fleeing this country back. These are groups about which the Polish police very frequently do not have any designation at all. We don't truly know who's coming in due to the fact that these people come in very frequently legally. And you gotta do this criminal work, investigative work, to detect them. – explained.
There are presently 13.5 1000 vacancies in the Polish police. Officers are missing in large cities, which is the favourite place to feed gangs.
Time to wake up
– We did our job, good job. In the '90s, 2000, where we planted, so to speak, on the butt of these criminal groups. The society has been put to sleep to any degree – that everything is fine. It was common crime, smaller, bigger. On the another hand, we were a secure country and I think that present we should wake up and approach this completely differently. – indicated another erstwhile police officer, Marcin Boris. He appealed for social favour to the work of officers who do hard and dangerous work.
– But I would appeal to politicians who say, "We're deporting these people." That's not enough, due to the fact that in 2 months they're coming back with a fresh fresh passport. Gotta start over. said Talkowski. – I'm not going to ask the police inspector due to the fact that it's not right, but I can ask if I'm speaking correctly. We request to start reforming the police, pretending to halt pretending to improvement and spending quite a few money so that police can effectively fight this crime from the east – he added.
– In the case of Georgians who enter our country and enter legally, we have no information about their criminal evidence at this point. The police don't have that information either. The exchange of criminal information with the Ukrainian or Georgian side is not as easy as we wish. – said Mariusz Sokołowski.
– We besides frequently deal with groups that act in specified a way by jumping across borders. These are the people who will sit outside our country, they will be in Ukraine, they will come here for a fewer days, they vanish there – he added.
– We are besides dealing with people who leave for Georgia or are deported from our country and it is very easy to change their name, surname in Georgia and enter on fresh papers, with a fresh passport – pointed out Andrzej Mroczek from Collegium Civitas, an expert on organised crime.
– If we examine fresh years in terms of this crime of foreigners – first of all, here we are talking about Georgian crime – and we will inactive scope for the etiology of the emergence of this kind of criminal structure, or erstwhile russian Union, due to the fact that Georgia was within the structures of the russian Union – the criminal hierarchy was formed, among another things, within the Sołoncev Group. Georgians are among the most dangerous groups, organized criminal groups in Russia. Like we weren't looking at it. This indicates that they besides have resident structures in another countries – explained Andrzej Mroczek. It's an airtight environment, and there's no way out of it.
The expert spoke about the aspect of the jury interpreters who handle the proceedings. The detainees must have an interpreter at their disposal.
– In my own experience, I'm just going to tell you that it doesn't look as colorful as we're presenting here. – said the expert of Collegium Civitas. – Many translators, and above all those translators who come from Georgia, are frequently intimidated during translation. They are primarily threatened by fighting and reaching the household that lives in Georgia. There is simply a breach on the police line – translator – stopped and stopped – translator – policeman.
– This is not the same message as for Polish criminal groups. We are able to detect specified subtle expressions, words, as well as cognition of the language of the criminal chatter, that is highly difficult, and this message is automatically lied – he added.
In 2023 the charges of participation in organized crime groups were 46 foreigners, a year later – already 117, and only in January and February 2025 – already 53.
Last year Polish police stopped as many as 17,000 foreigners for crimes.
The Police office in 2024 detained Ukrainian citizens for about 2,600 crimes, and as for Georgian citizens, 700. This year – nearly 170 Georgians and 700 Ukrainians.
Source: Polsat News
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