The 21-year-old is suspected of planning racially motivated knife attacks in Lublin<\/p>\n
A Ukrainian student has been arrested in Poland on suspicion of plotting a mass stabbing, prosecutors announced on Monday.
\nThe alleged plot came to light at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, where the 21-year-old suspect, identified as Yaroslav F., was studying criminology.
\nFellow students reportedly raised the alarm after becoming concerned about his aggressive and extremist statements, fascination with violent crime, and attempts to recruit like-minded individuals.
\nAccording to the Lublin prosecutor\u2019s office, the suspect was preparing to carry out racially motivated killings as part of a gruesome online challenge known as \u201cBloody Friday.\u201d A court ordered him held in pretrial detention for three months at the prosecutors\u2019 request.
\nInvestigators said that the student had purchased three knives, including two throwing knives, and viewed graphic online material depicting torture. He also allegedly attempted to recruit an accomplice to commit murder.<\/p>\n
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Yaroslav F. has pleaded not guilty and faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted.
\nUniversity spokesman Wojciech Andrusiewicz confirmed to the Polish Press Agency that the suspect was studying criminology, describing him as \u201clost in life.\u201d
\n\u201cWe urge everyone\u00a0to refrain from making\u00a0accusations or inflaming tensions,\u201d he said. \u201cLet us consider together how to solve the problems of young people.\u201d
\nThe case comes amid growing tensions between Warsaw and Kiev over historical grievances and the Ukrainian government\u2019s glorification of nationalist figures implicated in atrocities against Poles during World War II.
\nPolish politicians have condemned Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky\u2019s decision in May to name an elite commando unit \u201cHeroes of the UPA,\u201d after the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, a Nazi-allied nationalist militia responsible for massacres of Polish civilians.<\/p>\n
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