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Texas cop scraps French Riviera getaway to enable Ukrainian refugees in its place

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By Elizabeth Campbell
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Fort Value Star-Telegram

KRAKOW, Poland — Pawel Nabialek prepared to spend his vacation on the French Riviera and in Barcelona to look at a soccer match, but he scrapped his seaside trip to help Ukrainian refugees fleeing to Poland.

Nabialek, a lieutenant with the Fort Value police section, is shelling out his three-7 days vacation in Poland, where he was born, to help the ladies and young children fleeing Ukraine to get to harmless areas.

People who fled the war in Ukraine wait at the train station in Przemysl, southeastern Poland, Thursday, March 17, 2022.

Folks who fled the war in Ukraine wait at the train station in Przemysl, southeastern Poland, Thursday, March 17, 2022. (AP Image/Petros Giannakouris)

“How can I consider a image on a French beach when there is a war in Europe?” he stated. Nabialek landed in Krakow on March 14, bringing emergency initially help materials, which includes tourniquets, knives, ponchos and tactical flashlights. He introduced the materials to the Ukraine border to aid the troopers.

He then rented a car or truck and went to a refugee heart at the border, in which he registered as a driver to consider girls and children to risk-free locations.

The spouse and children Nabialek met was a mom and son and the mother’s sister. He knew promptly that he experienced to obtain their have faith in.

He confirmed them his passport, defined that he was a law enforcement officer and supplied to grow to be Fb buddies.

“They had been shellshocked. They had PTSD from the bomb alerts likely off,” he mentioned.

As they drove from the Ukraine border, the emergency alerts warning of an air raid ended up sounding on their telephones, Nabialek claimed.

The relatives desired to go to a farm about 4 hours from Warsaw.

Nabialek referred to as in advance and spoke to the farmer in Polish, but his instincts as a police officer kicked in, as

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