Poland’s Independence Day marked by protests in Warsaw

60.000 nationalists took toll over the country’s capital with the occasion of the Polish Independence Day on Saturday.

 

The streets of Warsaw saw flags and burning flares last weekend, in what was considered to be the “hijacking of Polish independence day, the November 11th.

Banners that read "White Europe, Europe must be white", "Pray for an Islamic Holocaust", "Death to enemies of the homeland" and "Catholic Poland, not secular" filled the capital’s center.

According to the Police, the crowd summed up almost 60.000 people from Poland and other European countries, such as UK, Sweden, Germany and Slovakia.

The impressive march was organized by the National Radical Camp, a group that actively fights against Muslim immigration, LGBTQ rights, and movements undermining Polish Catholic values.

Consequently, the day celebrating the rebirth of Poland 123 years after November 1918, was marked by intolerance and xenophobia of the far-right march.

With a consistent surge in nationalist thinking among young people, Poland is home of the fifth highest number of far-right activists worldwide after Germany, Hungary, the Czech Republic and the United States.

 

Source: edition.cnn.com