After the brutal killing of the porter on the campus of the University of Warsaw, the prosecution informed that we would wait until Friday for more detailed information about the perpetrator. This most likely has many procedural justifications, but as it turned out erstwhile again, it involves increased online activity of trolling services and triggers depressingly predictable, anti-immigrant scenarios.
A certain innovation is an effort to rapidly silence the pogrom moods by the media, which, without waiting for the determination of the organs, announced that the perpetrator was a Pole. Or "citizen of Poland", which besides turned out to be a trap, paving the way for the return of the already permanent hero of Russian disinformation officers in Poland: Ukrainian man with Polish citizenship, actually wanted by the police for a crime otherwise of advanced Poland, i.e. driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
Is there a cell for Braun?
Abstract from the real individual of the perpetrator: there are no specified crimes in Poland in which Poles would not lead. This was analysed a fewer days ago by the marketer and entrepreneur Grzegorz Miecznikowski, who published 10 facts on the crime of migrants (including Poles abroad), the Centres for the Integration of Foreigners or civic patrols. To people not susceptible to racist insanity, the list of Mieczinski will not turn the planet upside down, but worth adding it to bookmarks and scope it in moments of disinformation offensive.
In the calculation we will besides find an argument for the fact that Ukrainians and Ukrainians deserve 800+. That is why it is worth reminding – since it is falling diagnosis of the brutalization of political life, as a predicament of yesterday's crime – that on the fingers of 1 hand you can number Polish politicians who, even with their "pragmatic" attempts to turn right would not throw 3 cents into a dense climate xenophobic paranoia.
However, the first violin is undoubtedly played by the far right, and in the context of the last weeks it is hard not to ask whether there will be a cell for Grzegorz Braun. The fact that, according to the polls, Poles turn out to be immune to the rhetoric of this "politics" is surely 1 of the better information of the finalising presidential run – due to the fact that it was not so certain at first. All the more glaring is the state's helplessness towards a proputinal extremist who, with foam on his mouth, attacks historians, doctors, demolishes mouthpieces and burns flags, giving a signal to his followers that violent solutions can go unpunished even to presidential candidates.
A fewer days ago, the German counterintelligence declared AfD to be an extremist organization – but the AfD politicians, nevertheless unsympathetic, do not burn European flags after all (which is treated in Germany as a hatred crime and punishable by imprisonment of up to 3 years), do not attack physically performing their doctoral work and do not demolish the sound during speeches of professors specialising in the past of the Holocaust.
They're not going to aid the calls to avoid "political collapse". It is hard to pretend that the key conductors of nationalist uplift and their Twitter sidekicks and subcontractors do not have circumstantial organization colors. Repeal a fewer days ago Immunity for Braun the Euro MP should be the first step in his full marginalisation.
pacify xenophobics
In calling for the deescalation of xenophobic sentiments, let us add that contrary to the susceptible ground and treating fear as electoral fuel Tales of Staffors Karol Nawrocki and another instigators, Warsaw (and Poland in general) are peaceful and safe places to live. Seeing further articles about Prague North as a Polish no-go zone, you can almost be certain that “other Satans were active there”. And in the context of last year's regulation of access to the campus of the University of Warsaw, resulting from anti-Israeli protests, 1 might wonder if the safety obsession is sometimes going in the incorrect direction.
The anticipation of preventing a brutal, irrational murder, which the perpetrator does not even intend to hide, is unfortunately tiny – unlike the political prospects of managing fear and fueling antagonism. It is simply a political everyday life in Poland for at least 25 years, erstwhile then Minister of Justice Lech Kaczyński initiated the U.S.-transplanted fashion for sheriffs. “Zero tolerance” as a mantra served all subsequent ruling camps until last year's announcement of Prime Minister Tusk's fight against the non-existent fentanyl crisis in Poland or this year's Georgian deportations.
Therefore, let us not be fooled – yesterday's tragedy may and should not be an chance for political collapse, but only that understood as its lying attachment to immediate polling and election targets. However, as far as pacifying Russian propaganda and anti-immigrant hysteria are concerned, the chance is as good as any other.
