A divided country mourns and struggles with himself: In Poland, the political polarization is revealed after the death of the mayor of gdańsk Pawel Adamowicz again. From Warsaw, Monika Sieradzka.
“Danzig is no longer the same city”, is in the funeral book, which was designed according to the on Monday late gdańsk mayor in the local town house. Many people are willing to stand for hours in line to Pawel Adamowicz to Express their respect.
“He has financed my son from his private Fund for a scholarship, which I will never forget,” says a woman in a conversation with the Reporter of a local channel in front of the town hall. “It was the mayor of the city, the stand for freedom and solidarity,” says an elderly man, still remembers the strikes against the Communists from the 1970s, and in the here-born solidarity movement of the 1980s.
Political “Death Certificate”
The victim of a murder attack: gdańsk former mayor Pawel Adamowicz
In 2015, the national conservative-ruled country Adamowicz made in the case of right-wing groups unpopular. For its openness to the world, he got two years ago, a symbolic “death certificate”. The computer graphics created a false “political Death certificate” and published in the Internet made ones were made for some of the liberal mayor of the radically nationalist “Part of youth”.
The investigations against the initiators were recently recruited, because they were, according to the Polish Prosecutor’s office “no hate speech”, but an expression of “dissatisfaction with the decisions of the mayor”. The decision of the prosecutors reached the gdańsk city hall just one day before the fatal knife attack on Pawel Adamowicz.
The authors of the “political Death certificate” had reason to believe that they would go unpunished because of their initiatives in the Polish Public is more and more indifference, or apparent tolerance. One of the first examples of this development, the combustion of a Jews-doll during an anti-Islamic Demo in wrocław three years ago.
In 2017, radical nationalists have hung on a symbolic gallows in the middle of Katowice photos of six Polish EU parliamentarians. The six members would have deserved the gallows, because they had dared to put in a dispute with the Polish judicial reform on the EU side.
Millions of citizens are commemorated in Gdansk of the murdered mayor and called for an end to the violence
Verbal Gaffes
The political language is becoming more acute. The PiS Chairman Jaroslaw Kaczynski shortly after the victory in the parliamentary elections in the year 2015 is classified by his party against the PiS demonstrators as “Poland of a poorer variety” and, consequently, to the ideological polarization of the society as a whole.
In Parliament he attacked his opponents as “treasonous mouths” and accused of the murder of his 2010 plane crash lost brother Lech Kaczynski. During the nationalist demonstrations, the Opposition will be insulted regularly as the “red mob”, the “smash with Hammer and sickle”.
Pawel Adamowicz was one of those who had warned of such a mood do. However, a few hours after the death of Adamowicz of the government, loyalty to the public broadcaster TVP shifted the blame for the aggravation of the political fronts in Poland on the Opposition.
It was reminiscent of the Chairman of the civic platform (PO) Grzegorz Schetyna, who had referred to the PiS recently as “locusts” that you should take away from the healthy tree of our state”. Ex-President Lech Walesa had proposed to the PiS of 2017, you should jump out of the window. And Ex-foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski announced in terms of the PiS of 2007, a “slaughter of the Horde”.
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The murder as a political issue
Although the family of Pawel Adamowicz appealed for the tragedy not politically exploit. But it seems to be in many Parts of the country is impossible to respect this Please. Because Adamowiczs death is politically deeply split the country, already a political issue.
The separation is between the national conservative and the liberal-minded poles. It is a question of the attitude to Europe, to tolerance towards different ways of thinking, the Position of the Church, and to the interpretation of Polish history. The policy of murder in Poland of a novelty. Already now it becomes clear that he is similar to the Smolensk catastrophe in 2010, will deepen the already existing division of the company.