Groups of foreigners are carrying out “raids” in the Warsaw metro. They painted three trains in the same way. Meanwhile, the prosecutor's office is dropping the proceedings “due to the low social harm of the act,” Gazeta Wyborcza reported.
They write about trains
The Wyborcza Warszawa website described the destruction of subway trains by groups of foreigners. The last high-profile incident occurred around the end of 2023 at 1:30 a.m., when a large group of masked people lined up along the Młynów platform and within minutes spray-painted the entire train. Footage of the incident was spread on social networks.
The metro police station in Wyborcza informed journalists that there were 21 vandals. “During the action” there were shouts of “Vamos!”, which can be translated from Spanish: “Hurry!”.
Wyborcza contacted the capital city hall regarding this issue. “This was the third such case in recent months according to a similar scenario,” Vice-President Michal Olszewski admitted. “In total, in 2023, we had five actions of stopping and vandalizing metro trains, which is twice as many as in 2022. – she said.
As agreed, a larger meeting will be held in the office this week with the participation of the police, security services and a representative of the city on public transport safety issues.
Who destroys the subway?
“Officials are not entirely sure where the foreign graffiti artists who like the Warsaw subway come from. Suspicions are not only Spanish, but also Italians and French. The collective could be international. Especially since it is a three-letter signature. December 29 to 30, 2023 “Vandals left on a subway car overnight match the name of a Russian-speaking group that created an online channel in 2015 to show off their graffiti,” reads GW.
The newspaper established that a similar situation occurred in Hungary. “In September 2022, the Hungarian English-language portal XpatLoop.com, as well as local Hungarian media, reported the arrest of two Italians (a 26-year-old man and a woman two years older), two Bulgarians (17 and 20 years old). (year) and a 29-year-old Spaniard “They came to Budapest to spray paint the subway cars. The first group broke into his base at night. The damage caused by the destruction was estimated at 1 million forints,” he wrote. As it turned out, Budapest was not the first city to be targeted by vandals.
Vice President Olszewski announced that 15 people were arrested in Warsaw. He did not disclose their nationalities. However, according to him, the prosecutor's office is closing the proceedings due to the “low harmfulness of the act”. However, the losses are significant because each time the traffic has to be stopped and the damaged trains cleaned, which takes several days.
(Tags translated) metro