On October 10, a rally in Jarosław, Poland, demanded a migration crackdown after the September 24 killing of Fr. Stanisław Zbojnowicz. RT headlined it “Ukrainian kills”. Prosecutors charge one man, Ihor M., 31. The subject of RT’s sentence is a nationality. “Ukrainian kills Polish priest” has no name in it. Prosecutors in Przemyśl charge one man, 31-year-old Ihor M., with stabbing Fr. Stanisław Zbojnowicz to death on September 24 and attempting to kill four others. Court psychiatrists diagnosed him with an acute psychotic disorder, his sanity will be assessed separately, and a court ordered him held three months in a high-security forensic psychiatric ward. RT’s page never names him and never mentions the diagnosis. The tell is the group named where a person acted. PAP’s headline gives “Ihor M.” and his admission; TVP World’s gives a dead priest and a stabbing. Mezha, a Ukrainian outlet, writes “Ukrainian Man”, which still keeps him one man. RT’s wording rides an old habit of the mind: a stranger’s crime is read as his kind’s nature, while our side’s crime is the circumstances. His citizenship first came from Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s own post on the day; making it the verb’s subject is the headline’s choice. The device is one line quoted as the whole. RT quotes a single speaker, Kowalski, who announced the rally on September 26 at the March of Silence, and writes his demand as what “Protesters” want. The page carries TV-Novosti’s copyright and quotes no Russian official: the line is a Polish nationalist’s, carried to English readers. Krytyka Polityczna’s report from the abbey holds the plain sentence: one man committed the crime, but talk outside keeps turning to “them”.
