From Clashes at Poland’s Independence Day far-right march
Far-right supporters in Poland clash fiercely with police during an annual Independence Day march attended by thousands in Warsaw that went ahead despite a ban on public gatherings due to the pandemic.
Many participants turned up in cars and on motorbikes to observe social distancing. But others marched on foot, and some threw firecrackers at police in riot gear and into windows with LGBT rainbow flags or signs of anti-government sentiment. An apartment caught fire, but firefighters put it out. No one was hurt.
There are no immediate reports of arrests or injuries, though ambulances were heard approaching the scene of the repeated clashes.
Warsaw authorities banned the march, which a court also declared illegal, citing the ban on gatherings of over five people.
— AP
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