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Anti-immigration march in Warsaw

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Paweł Kononczuk 10.04.2016 14:24
Several hundred demonstrators marched in central Warsaw on Sunday voicing opposition to Poland taking in immigrants.
Anti-immigration marchers in Warsaw. Photo: PAP/Marcin ObaraAnti-immigration marchers in Warsaw. Photo: PAP/Marcin Obara

The marchers chanted "Poles against immigrants!" and "Down with the European Union."

The protest, organised by the far-right National-Radical Camp, started at Defilad Square and was to end at the capital’s Piłsudski Square.

The demonstrators were later to take part in commemorations marking the sixth anniversary of the 2010 Smolensk plane crash, which killed 96 people, including the Polish president and dozens of top officials.

Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydło said on Friday that the Visegrad Group, comprising Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, would not agree to a change in EU rules on the relocation of refugees.

Faced with an influx of migrants fleeing the war-torn Middle East and North Africa, the European Commission on Wednesday proposed changes to EU rules that would see asylum seekers automatically redistributed between member states, according to officials. (pk)

Source: IAR

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