The Presidential Palace is stating it plainly: these are citizens of the Republic of Poland, and we cannot allow Polish citizens to be treated in this way, Marcin Przydacz stressed when asked about the beating of Border Defence Movement (ROG) activists in Berlin.
On Tuesday, June 16, in Berlin, German police brutally attacked activists from the Border Defence Movement who wanted to place a cross by a stone commemorating Polish victims of World War II. Participants were knocked to the ground and handcuffed, and some suffered injuries requiring medical assistance. The most seriously injured, including Robert Bąkiewicz, were taken to hospital.
The scandal has reverberated widely, yet the passivity of those currently in power over the matter is striking and so far, there has been no information about any adequate intervention in response to the scandal.
Marcin Przydacz, head of the Presidential Bureau of International Policy, was asked about the brutal incident on German soil.
“The Presidential Palace is stating it plainly: these are citizens of the Republic of Poland, and we cannot allow Polish citizens to be treated in this way,”
he replied on TV Republika’s First Conversation of the Day.
The minister also commented on Radosław Sikorski’s outrageous remarks and said that citizens with whom one agrees cannot be treated differently from those who hold different views.
“It is not his role to distinguish between citizens who should be defended and those who should not. All citizens have the right to feel protected by the Polish state,”
Przydacz emphasised.
He added that a discussion should be held at the political level.
“The issue of Polish citizens being beaten should be placed on the agenda of talks,”
he stressed.