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		</div><p>Flags flew at half-staff and people signed condolence books at municipal buildings across Poland as the nation mourned the stabbing death of the mayor of port city Gdansk.</p>
<p>In Gdansk, people placed flowers and candles and signed a condolence book at the town hall, where mayor Pawel Adamowicz had his office since he was first elected in 1998.</p>
<p>In the capital Warsaw, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and members of his cabinet stood for a moment of silence in Mr Adamowicz’s honour before their weekly meeting.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, interior minister Joachim Brudzinski said police have arrested three people who had called for more killings following the assassination of Mr Adamowicz, who died on Monday after being stabbed during a charity event.</p>
<p>Mr Brudzinski described those arrested as internet trolls and “unbalanced”.</p>
<p>The assailant stabbed Mr Adamowicz three times in the heart and abdomen while on stage during a charity event on Sunday evening.</p>
<p>He then told a crowd of thousands he did it in revenge against the opposition Civic Platform party, which was in power when he was imprisoned in 2013 for bank robberies.</p>
<p>Mr Adamowicz was a long-time member of Civic Platform but left it in 2015.</p>
<p>Officials have identified the assailant as 27-year-old Stefan W from Gdansk who left prison in December after serving more than five years for bank robberies. Justice officials said he needed psychiatric examination and that a psychiatrist assisted at his questioning on Monday.</p>
<p>The killing plunged the politically divided country into shock and grief and brought Poles into the streets for solemn vigils on Monday night.</p>
<p>It also threatened to exacerbate a tense political situation in the country, with Poles bitterly divided between supporters of the ruling right-wing party Law and Justice and critics who accuse it of creating a climate of intolerance and eroding democratic standards. They have primarily focused their criticism on the party’s reshaping of the judicial system and its use of public media as a political tool.</p>
<p>Some Poles put some of the blame for the assassination on the right-wing ruling Law and Justice party, which has often employed harsh language to denounce its critics, among them Mr Adamowicz.</p>
<p>Government officials and some independent observers called for caution, noting the assailant’s criminal record and suspected psychiatric problems.</p>
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