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Tens of thousands joined Warsaw’s annual Independence Day march, where a newspaper reported that masked men displayed a white-nationalist banner. Organisers and local authorities gave sharply different estimates of the crowd.
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Tens of thousands of people joined Warsaw’s annual Independence Day march on Tuesday, with estimates of the crowd ranging from about 250,000 to half a million. Poland’s president, Karol Nawrocki, was among those present.
The march takes place on 11 November, marking Poland’s recovery of sovereignty in 1918 after more than a century of foreign rule. It has also previously been used by right-wing nationalists to promote extremist views.
The Polish newspaper Rzeczpospolita reported that masked men at this year’s event displayed a banner reading “Make Europe White Again”. Images published by the paper showed the procession, with flares in some places, moving towards Warsaw’s National Stadium.
Organisers estimated attendance at 500,000, while local authorities put the figure at about 250,000.
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