Far-right march of thousands in Warsaw protesting the EU, immigration and refugees.

[pampango]

Tens of thousands of protesters poured into Warsaw's streets on Wednesday for a demonstration organised by the far right, marching under the slogan "Poland for the Polish" and burning an EU flag.

Police said 25,000 people joined the march, which marked the anniversary of Poland's return to independence after the First World War, while organisers put the numbers at 50,000.

"God, honour, homeland," chanted the protesters as they marched under a sea of red-and-white Polish flags. Other banners read "Great Catholic Poland" and "Stop Islamisation".

Demonstrators trampled and burned a European Union flag at one point, while a banner added to the anti-EU theme with the slogan "EU macht frei" ("Work makes you free" in German), a reference to the slogan over the gates at Auschwitz.


Demonstrators watch an European Union flag burning
during the annual march commemorating Poland's National
Independence Day

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/11989250/EU-flag-burned-as-tens-of-thousands-join-Warsaw-nationalist-demo.html

I hope the left had a counter-demonstration in favor of the EU, immigration and refugees but I have not read about anything like that.

[BlueMTexpat]

1. Unfortunately, Poland's left

was pretty much overwhelmed by the RW in its most recent elections: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/f0a994e8-7bdf-11e5-a1fe-567b37f80b64.html#axzz3rx5624am

I am so sorry to see this happen. There are many decent Poles who do not deserve this at all and are as embarrassed and ashamed by their RW politicians as we are of the GOPer Klown Kar Kandidates and their ilk at all levels.