News / Polish "Rambo" in the forest [42]

This case is unusual enough for Poland to deserve its own thread, I guess...

It's already the tenth day of a manhunt after Grzegorz Borys from Gdynia, a 44-year-old soldier from the Polish Navy who killed his 6-year-old son and dog with a knife. Now there's also an Interpol red notice on him.



For all this time the search efforts have been conducted by 1000 people (police, military police, Formoza soldiers, firefighters, forest rangers) and focused mainly on the forests of the Tricity Landscape Park, because this is where the police believes the suspect is hiding.

It looks like Borys prepared himself for this well. He left with a backpack with survival equipment and the police found hideouts with a place to sleep dug in the ground and barrels with food in that forest.

Apparently, at one point the tracking dog almost had him, but Borys managed to escape.

Since it's been 10 days already people are growing impatient and are starting to criticise the police. A former military sniper said, for example, that with today's technology Borys should have been found after 2 days. Unless he's dead (and so you can't see him with termovision) or maybe escaped abroad already. On the other hand, according to the former head of Ministry of Internal Affairs this forest is a good place to hide:

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"I know the Tricity Landscape Park well. Years ago we were organising fitness marches there. It's a big territory, majority of which is densely forested with many wetlands. There are craters in the ground there, bunkers, ditches and terrain depressions. You can defenitely hide in such a place. The police must be convinced that Grzegorz Borys is still hiding in the forest. - Kaczmarek told WP."

So far a 19-year-old man was arrested for giving the police fake info about Boris' whereabouts.

Borys' neighbours shed some light on his recent behaviour. They said he was wearing a balaclava, sunglasses and a knife even though he lives in a safe neighbourhood. He would take the knife even to the playground when he was with his son. Borys was getting frustrated easily, he was shouting at kids and was vulgar. He was anti-Ukrainian and he didn't want Ukrainian kids to come to play. His son seemed to be stressed out around him. Borys was also agrressive towards his dog, he was even kicking it (the dog was old already and was walking slowly). People were afraid to say anything to him.

One neighbour said Borys would often go to the forest, spending even a week at a time there.
According to soldiers from his unit Borys (who was a driver at his unit) was a secretive, quiet, not social man. He also wasn't very bright nor ambitious and didn't seem to care about the opinion of his supervisors about him.

At the time of the murder Borys was on sick leave.
Nothing has been said about his motives so far - all is known apparently is that he left a note saying: "I'm sorry for everything, you are all beasts."

Btw, in July this year in Reda, not far from Gdynia, there was a disturbingly similar case. A 32-year-old soldier from Formoza (something like Navy Seals) killed his 6-year-old daughter and his dog with a knife and then killed himself with a knife too. Makes me wonder if this recent murderer is a copycat of sorts o_O

Nothing is known about the motive behind that murder from July either, but I have some guess. The police said that the Formoza soldier didn't live with the mother of his daughter and neighbours said that he's been living there for two months only, so I think it's possible that his wife left him and killing their daughter was maybe his revenge for that, for example. Allegedly, he didn't have any psychological problems.