Poland urges UK to keep its citizens safe from xenophobia
Source: Agence France-Presse
Saturday 3 September 2016 22.23 BST
Poland has urged Britain to keep its residents safe from xenophobia as British police probed the murder of a Pole they believe may have been the victim of a hate crime.
“We’re counting on the British government and authorities responsible for the safety of British and European citizens, including Poles, to prevent the kind of xenophobic acts we’ve seen recently,” Polish foreign minister, Witold Waszczykowski, said in Warsaw on Saturday following talks with his British counterpart, Boris Johnson.
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There was an upsurge in the number of reported hate crimes around the period of the EU referendum in June. Hundreds of people, many of them Poles, gathered in Harlow on Saturday for a vigil to remember Jozwik. Many waved Polish flags and scarves and laid flowers at the scene of the killing, while the Polish national anthem was sung and a minute’s silence held.
Speaking in Warsaw, Johnson, said: “We all agree that there is absolutely no place for xenophobia in our society.”
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/sep/03/poland-urges-uk-to-keep-its-citizens-safe-from-xenophobia
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