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Tens of thousands attend Polish nationalist march days after shootings

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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. The event is a magnet for all shades of Poland’s right wing — from conservative-nationalists aligned with its Law and Justice (PiS) party to far-right and radical groups. FRANCE 24’s Carys Garland reports.

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