Warsaw counts the cost after Independence Day riots

photo - PAP/ Leszek Szymański

Courts will be in special session today to hear the cases against those detained. Among the accused are 92 'anarchists' from Germany, a Spaniard, a Hungarian and a Dane.

Forty police officers were injured and 14 patrol cars damaged during the disturbances, which marred celebrations of Independence Day, a national holiday in Poland.

Twenty nine people were treated in hospitals.

A transmission van from the TVN television station was set on fire and a Polish Radio vehicle was stoned by nationalists.

President Bronislaw Komorowski is currently looking into tightening the law on demonstration and assembly to give local authorities more powers as to how to organise marches in cities, says his spokesperson.

The president thanked the police officers for their work in trying to contain the violence between nationalists and left wing groups. He also thanked those who celebrated Independence Day “in a joyful and dignified” manner.

Prime Minister Donald Tusk has also vowed to crackdown on violent demonstrators “ruthlessly”.

At midday today, Prime Minister Donald Tusk will meet with Minister of Justice Krzysztof Kwiatkowski, Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration Jerzy Miller, Mayor of Warsaw Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz and police chiefs to review events yesterday. (pg)

Independence Day marches turn violent in Warsaw - as it happened