WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Far-right nationalists, burning flares and carrying Polish flags, marched in large numbers through the streets of Warsaw on Friday to mark Poland’s Independence Day, a yearly ritual that has become one of the largest far-right gatherings in Europe.
Some participants burned a Ukrainian flag at the march, which comes amid increased strains between Poland and Ukraine over a wartime massacre of Poles by Ukrainians.
The biggest one was organized by the Committee for the Defense of Democracy, an organization founded last year to fight the centralization of power by Poland’s right-wing government.
Early in the day, President Andrzej Duda, …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
