Refugees: should Poles be afraid?
PR dla Zagranicy
Roberto Galea
29.09.2015 16:13
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Refugees: should Poles be afraid?
Amid an ongoing discussion on practical ways of solving the problem of migrants faced by the EU, a parallel and often aggressive political debate is taking place in Poland.
A migrant woman waits at the transit camp to board a train heading to the Serbian border, near the city of Gevgelija, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, 29 September 2015. Photo: EPA/GEORGI LICOVSKI
Can some of the voiced statements bring real harm to Polish society, other than the prophesied "influx of terrorist groups"?
“If we strongly display our negative feelings towards immigrants, the expected reaction of terrorist organizations will be to convince these persons that the reason for such aggression and slanderous treatment is their Muslim religion... something they must stand up to and fight,” says Gen. Paweł Pruszyński, former deputy head of the Internal Security Agency (ABW).
As Sławek Szefs reports, the reason for the diverging sentiments is simple: the current campaign in the run up to the October scheduled parliamentary elections in this country.