German Minority Youth Association HQ vandalised
PR dla Zagranicy
Peter Gentle
17.10.2011 11:34
Graffiti has been daubed on the offices of the Youth Association of the German Minority in Poland and a swastika painted on a car belonging to a member of the organization in Opole, southwestern Poland.
The vandalism was reported to local police on Friday afternoon.
Given that the use of Nazi symbols is illegal in Poland, Maciej Milewski, a spokesman for the city's police, said that the painting of the swastika, “will be treated as the propagation of fascism”.
Around 104,000 ethnic Germans live in the Opole region, some 71 percent of Poland's entire German minority. (nh/pg)