Pursuant to Art. 304 § 1 of the Code of Penal Procedure we filed a notification on the possibility of committing an officially prosecuted offence by the organizers  and participants of Independence March on November 11 2017 on the route Dmowski Roundabout – National Stadium commons in Warsaw.

The documented course of the March shows a justified suspicion regarding commitment of offence from Art. 256 § 1 of the Penal Code: Anyone who promotes the fascist or totalitarian political system or incites hatred motivated by national, ethnic, racial, denomination or irreligiousness differences shall be subject to fine, punishment of restricted freedom or imprisonment up to two years. And offence from Art. 257 of the Penal Code: Anyone, who publicly insults a group of people or an individual because of national, ethnic, denomination or irreligiousness association or, for these reasons, violates bodily integrity of another person, shall be subject to imprisonment up to three years.

Here are the examples of slogans shouted by the participants or written on banners recorded by photo-reporters and television stations: “White Europe of brotherly nations”, “Pure blood, sober mind”, “Europe will be white or uninhabited”, “Jewry must be deprived of power”, “White force, Ku Klux Klan”, “National socialism”, “All different, all white”, “Poland for Poles, Poles for Poland”, “Sieg heil”.

We also informed the Minister of Justice, Minister of the Interior and Administration and the President’s Chancellery about the notification filed by us.