Two demonstrations were held in Warsaw Saturday, with participants in one welcoming migrants into their country while rival protesters chanted "no to migrants."
"Today it's migrants, tomorrow it's terrorists," some 300 far-right protesters chanted, waving banners that read: "Poland does not have the means to welcome migrants."
Meanwhile some 100 people carrying bread and salt -- a Polish tradition symbolising hospitality -- stood near Warsaw's central train station to welcome asylum seekers into the eastern European country.
Poland has said it is ready to welcome 2,000 migrants as Europe seeks to share the burden on Italy and Greece, on whose Mediterranean coastlines scores of thousands of migrants have arrived in recent months.
Two demonstrations were held in Warsaw Saturday, with participants in one welcoming migrants into their country while rival protesters chanted “no to migrants.”
“Today it’s migrants, tomorrow it’s terrorists,” some 300 far-right protesters chanted, waving banners that read: “Poland does not have the means to welcome migrants.”
Meanwhile some 100 people carrying bread and salt — a Polish tradition symbolising hospitality — stood near Warsaw’s central train station to welcome asylum seekers into the eastern European country.
Poland has said it is ready to welcome 2,000 migrants as Europe seeks to share the burden on Italy and Greece, on whose Mediterranean coastlines scores of thousands of migrants have arrived in recent months.
