Łukasz died after police intervention. "I'll tell you what they did to him"

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– Łukasz was cheerful, gentle, positive and very ambitious. He was because he is no more. I'll tell you what they did to him. I will tell you how I lost my brother – says Wiktoria Łągiewka.

Łukasz

Łukasz Łągiewka runs his own company, he is 29 years old. Tall, dark-haired, handsome, well-built, sportsman type. He lives alone, but would like to have a wife and children. It's his dream.

She has been suffering from depression for years. He can't handle emotions. He tells his family that when he's down, he turns to drugs. Half a year ago, he stopped therapy.

At the end of July he lost his beloved dog, Chihuahua Boni, without which he never went anywhere. He traveled the world with her.

After losing her, Łukasz does not feel well. It breaks down. He avoids family gatherings. When they come to him, he does not want to open them. They last see each other on July 29.

Police intervention. Wroclaw, August 2. Night

The family is worried about him. They're afraid he might do something to himself. He sends a disturbing text as if he's saying goodbye. She writes in them: "It will be better this way", "Mom, I'm sorry."

- We thought that since Łukasz is so depressed, we'll call for help, they'll take him to the hospital, give him medicine and he'll be safe.

Father calls 112, describes the situation. He asks if they can help him somehow. He doesn't know yet how much he will regret it.

– The answer was that they would send someone to intervene and that we should go there too.

Father and Wiktoria go to his apartment. New housing estate. Fourth floor. Firefighters are already at the scene checking to see if anyone is inside. Nobody answers. Deafening silence.

Łukasz is in the apartment, he receives a call from his father, who asks him to let him in. However, he refuses. He looks through the viewfinder, but does not recognize his relatives. "You are not here." "It's not you."

Two policemen arrive at the scene. There is also an ambulance.

When the firefighters try to climb the ladder and shine flashlights in the windows, Łukasz goes berserk. He hits the door. He screams: "Go away! Leave me!", then "Help!", "Help!". On the phone, he tells his father that he will defend himself. He's afraid.

Firefighters give up entering through the window. They move to the cage, in front of his door. It's a long, narrow corridor.

The policemen do not start any conversation with Łukasz. They don't negotiate. They call for reinforcements.

Łukasz does not believe that there are policemen and firemen behind the door. Nor his relatives. Maybe it's because of drugs or drugs. unknown. He keeps banging on the door. Sam calls the police. He says someone is trying to break in and hurt him. He's begging for help.

More policemen appear on the staircase, including two plainclothes. Now there are six of them. When one of them hears pounding on the door coming from inside, he shouts: "But there will be action." Łukasz's relatives have the impression that the officers are turning each other on.

– This plainclothes cop was pumped up. It was he who played the action in a certain way, says Wiktoria.

Łukasz does not respond to the call: "Police, open".

They decide to force entry. "Luke, step aside, we're going to enter the apartment." Then the firefighters begin to break down the door that separates them from him. He starts pounding on them even harder and yells for them to go away. Policemen stand in front of the entrance with gas and batons. The plainclothes man pulls out his gun and points it at the door. "Move away from the door, onto the ground."

He leaves it and hides it when Łukasz's relatives shout: "What are you doing? He is not aggressive!". They ask Łukasz to see them after opening the door, because then he will calm down. The cops tell them to stand back and not to disturb them.

When the father wants to cancel the intervention, one of the officers pushes him away. "It's none of your business, citizen." "We know what we have to do."

- We looked and couldn't do anything.

When one of the locks pops open and a gap is created in the door, a plainclothes cop yells, "He's got a knife!" “No one has seen the knife other than the police. Not us, not firefighters, not rescuers.

Through the crack in the door, policemen spray gas inside. Lukasz, hurt by it, keeps blocking the door and trying to close it in their face so that they don't come in. Cries of "Calm down!" echo around the cage. and "Leave me alone!".

Everywhere smells of gas. The walls next to the entrance are yellow from it. It is similar in the apartment, traces of its use are on the furniture, floor and ceiling. Victoria will clean up this mess for three days.

- It didn't look like a rescue. Only as if they came to a dangerous bandit. They forgot they were supposed to help him.

As Lukasz loses his strength, they finally manage to force the door. Then they go inside.

The police and Łukasz's family's versions of what happens next are diametrically opposed.

A few hours after the intervention of the police, Łukasz dies in the hospital.

The rest of the text is below the video

Police version

When the door opens and the policemen enter, Łukasz brandishes a knife in their direction. He threatens to use it. He's aroused. The police subdue him and hand him over to the medical services.

The spokesman for the Wrocław police does not explain how the intervening police officers incapacitate the man. He only emphasizes: "The threat he posed to himself and those around him left the policemen with no choice." He does not answer detailed questions. Refers to the statement.

"We want a thorough explanation of the circumstances of this case. The investigation in this regard is being conducted by the Wrocław Psie Pole District Prosecutor's Office. We are waiting for information about its results. Until then, please refrain from formulating opinions and conclusions" - this is its fragment.

Family Version

The first cops to enter are plainclothes. Łukasz doesn't know it's the police. They overpower him. "Fuck.. on the ground", "Fuck.., don't struggle." They hit him with clubs until he bleeds. They are gassy. His arms and legs are bound, and one of the policemen sits on top of him. The relatives do not see that Łukasz has a knife in his hand. Instead, they see a knee on his neck. They shout, "Take that leg off!" The policeman pulls his knee back after a moment.

Łukasz tries to free himself, he struggles. He calls out: "Help!". Wiktoria, his scream now dreams at night.

- He was already lying down, and they continued to beat him with batons. They were terribly brutal. I don't believe they're so skilled that they watched where they hit. I made eye contact with him for a moment. I begged, "Luke, calm down." I wanted it to end already.

Then the policemen drag him to the cage, throw him and pin him to the ground. The policewoman steps on his ankles with her boots. Someone else is handcuffing him. A plainclothes policeman punches Luke twice in the head. The sticks are still in motion. "Fuck, don't move, fuck, lie still."

A moment later, when Łukasz is lying on the ground and has no strength to fight anymore, the policemen move away and the rescuers give him an injection. They put him on a stretcher and take him to the ambulance, where he goes into cardiac arrest for the first time. Once again, the heart stops in the hospital.

- When they took him to the elevator and he rode past me on a stretcher, he had bad eyesight. That was the last time I saw my brother.

When rescuers take Łukasz, his father has tears in his eyes. He blames himself for calling the police on his son. This was not how he imagined helping him.

He and his daughter overhear a policeman say that Łukasz will go to jail for assaulting an officer. But Łukasz will not go to prison because he dies a few hours after being transported to the hospital.

- I gave my father the idea to call the police. Now I'm kicking myself and blaming him for his death.

When Wiktoria approaches a plainclothes policeman, he tells her that it was "standard action". – If this is how every action looks like, then I do not see a future for this service.

- They treated him like a bandit - says Wojciech Kasprzyk, one of the representatives of Łukasz's family.

– They seem to have forgotten that they were called to help him. After all, no one who wants to take their own life will open the door at night and invite the policemen for tea. They should have sent a negotiator to him who would talk to him calmly, but they didn't do it, says Katarzyna Cupiał, the family's attorney.

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It is not known what caused Łukasz's death. The results of the section are to be known by September 15. No drugs were found in his apartment.

The prosecutor's office has launched an investigation into the case of involuntary manslaughter of Łukasz.

Wiktoria: – That plain policeman told me that night that he behaves like this because he has someone to come home to. And my brother will never come back to me because of him.

Contact with the author: tomasz.pajaczek@redakcjaonet.pl