Poles apart: Gdansk divided as city grapples with immigration and identity

Judgment by the demeanour of roughly of its football fans, Gdańsk mightiness not be expected to prolong a strong receive to any refugees arriving therein larboard metropolis on Poland’s Baltic glide.
One notorious standard unfurled at a Lechia Gdańsk mate showed a lightlessness man kneel ahead of a attired Ku Klux Klan part; another displayed a icon of Hitler’s surrogate , Rudolf Hess.

In February, the city’s Jewish graveyard was desecrated.
So it is hard to say which is more startling: Gdańsk’s commemorate of racialism, or the metropolis mayor Paweł Adamowicz’s calling adventure in mount bent verso it. “I am a European so my nature is to be out-of-doors,” says Adamowicz. “Gdańsk is a interface and mustiness incessantly be a sanctuary from the sea.”