On 31 October 2026 at about 17:30 a man poured flammable liquid over an armchair inside a restaurant premises in Warsaw’s Ursynow district and set it on fire while nine people were inside.[1] The premises stands in a multi-family residential building, so the fire could have directly endangered the life and health of many people.[1] Criminal officers from the Warsaw-Ursynow police station quickly identified a suspect and, around midnight, stopped and detained a man matching the description on a street in Bielany.[1] The detained man is a 24-year-old citizen of Rwanda who was already wanted by a court.[1] Checks showed he was wanted to serve 15 days of imprisonment, and he declined to explain why he tried to set fire to the pizzeria.[1]
Officers found plant material on the detained man, and testing confirmed that it was marijuana.[2] The premises was unofficially identified as a delivery pizzeria in a housing block on Dereniowa Street.[1]
The man heard two charges, causing a direct danger of fire threatening the lives of many people while acting publicly for a trivial reason showing disregard for the legal order, and possessing intoxicating substances.[1] On the prosecutor’s motion a court ordered three months of temporary arrest for the 24-year-old, who faces up to eight years in prison, potentially more because of the hooligan character of the act.[1] The Warsaw-Ursynow district prosecutor’s office supervises the proceedings.[1]
