What happened yesterday in Warsaw? (7.08.20)
Yesterday, an attempt was made to arrest for 2 months an activist Margot (a non-binary person - from Stop Bzdurom) for damage to a van that preaches homophobic slogans (such as "homosexuals are pedophiles") and for damage to the health of the person from the foundation that finances these vans - (these vans often drive around Poland in police custody). When they came to get her, she was in the headquarters of KPH (Kampania Przeciw Homofobii - Campaign Against Homophobia). On the Internet, I read how they called to appear there and disturb the police. The police could not get to Margot thanks to people who came and other activists.
Eventually Margot went out to voluntarily surrender herself to the police, but was not arrested. The police left her...
Margot and the rest of them went to the Krakowskie Przedmieście district, where a rainbow flag was hung on the Nicolaus Copernicus monument again. Then Margot was raided in an unmarked police car. Even more people gathered in the square and sat around the car so that it could not leave. Police was agressive.
There were no warnings before the police started using force. It was brutal. The left-wing MPs were on the spot and tried how they could defend those who were treated worst.
(Jakub Kaminski - East News/ Przemysław Stefaniak)
Paweł H. Głogowski/REPORTER
Everything lasted many hours and about 50 people were detained/arrested.
The MP testifies that she heard the cops talking to each other to arrest 3 people at random.
„An escalation in police violence I haven't seen in a long time.
We were blocking the car with Margot. The police crashed the crowd. Then the car tried to drive away, but the crowd kept blocking it... Another person who threw himself on the car to stop the political police from taking the activist. This is our rainbow civil disobedience. I don't have a word for what happened. Tears come into my own eyes. There are many detainees at several commands and a huge team of attorneys who help. There are also MPs from the opposition.”
- Bart Staszewski
"Solidarity is our weapon."
Foto. Przemysław Stefaniak
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