Warsaw Mayor bans Independence March

Warsaw Mayor Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz on Wednesday banned an Independence March planned in the city on November 11, Poland's Independence Day. Explaining the move, Gronkiewicz-Waltz reminded about the EP's October appeal to the EU members to restrict the activity of neo-fascist groups, and pointed out the march's main sponsor was the ultra-right National-Radical Camp (ONR) organisation. Gronkiewicz-Waltz stressed that she had twice appealed for ONR's delegalisation to the justice minister, and insisted that she fully stood behind her decision to forbid the march, because "this is not what the centenary of the Polish state should look like.