American basketball player attacked in Poland, left with injured eye socket

WARSAW, Poland — An American basketball player at a qualified Polish girls’s membership was once overwhelmed and left with a head damage midweek with the attacker later detained, in step with officers and reviews in Polish media on Sunday.

Mikayla Cowling, who performs for VBW Arka Gdynia, was once attacked past due Wednesday in a track membership in Gdansk, a town in northern Poland, in step with the RMF FM broadcaster, which additionally quoted the membership pronouncing the “brutal beating” left her with a fractured eye socket, amongst different accidents.

Gdansk is a neighboring town to Gdynia at the Baltic coast.

“I am outraged that such a shameful situation has occurred. Violence and aggression are unacceptable and must be opposed,” Gdynia Mayor Wojciech Szczurek stated Sunday on X, the platform previously referred to as Twitter. “Fortunately, the police quickly caught the attacker. We wish the player good health!”

The assault took place after a EuroCup girls’s fit the place the Gdynia workforce defeated opponents from Switzerland, BCF Elfic Fribourg, 77-47.

The president of the Gdynia membership, Boguslaw Witkowski, stated in an interview with the Polish state news company PAP that the player was once attacked close to the ladies’s restroom by means of a safety guard.

Cowling was once hit a number of instances at the head, and when she fell, she was once additionally kicked. The maximum critical damage was once to her face and the athlete has a fractured orbital bone, he stated. He added that she is at house underneath statement and can have further exams subsequent week.

PAP additionally quoted a police spokesperson who stated the attacker, a 48-year-old guy, was once arrested on Friday.

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