Murder of Gdańsk mayor highlights Poland’s polarization

By artappraiser on Tue, 01/15/2019 - 5:19am |

Murder of Gdańsk mayor highlights Poland's polarization: Adamowicz was a high-profile liberal critic of the ruling right-wing Law and Justice, and supported issues like gay rights and accepting asylum seekers. https://t.co/2ittBlpCy6
— alain servais (@aservais1) January 15, 2019

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https://www.politico.eu/article/gdansk-mayor-pawel-adamowicz-killing-highlights-poland-deep-divisions/

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Not so much - the guy was a violent criminal who blamed the mayor for putting him away before.

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 01/15/2019 - 5:47am

thanks for that. Being partly in the biz of deconstructing spin, it is odd how Politico does spin sometimes...

by artappraiser on Tue, 01/15/2019 - 6:45am

There's certainly (from my little analysis) some tension between left & right movements in Poland, including the strongest anti-abortion sentiment in Europe and the normal regional conflicts, and I can imagine that not all events like this have to be correlated to spring loose a conflict laying in waiting, but in this case it seemed the nationalist opposition/ruling party came out truly sympathetic rather than taking advantage of the situation. Would that only happen in America.

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 01/15/2019 - 7:17am

Murder of Gdańsk mayor highlights Poland’s polarization

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