Tens of thousands attend Polish nationalist march days afer shootings

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Tens of thousands attended Poland’s annual Independence Day March in Warsaw, held to mark the restoration of independence in 1918. The gathering came days after a deadly shooting spree in Krakow; similar marches have generally been peaceful but have previously seen clashes.

Tens of thousands of Polish nationalist sympathisers gathered in Warsaw Wednesday for an annual Independence Day March, just days after a deadly shooting spree in Krakow that shook the country. The event is held each November 11 to commemorate the ending in 1918 of 123 years of partition by Russia, Prussia and Austria. While generally peaceful, some rallies in the pasthave been marred by clashes with police or counter-demonstrators. Philip Turle gives us his take.