Not so long ago I dealt with an article of John Cornwell, who blamed Poles of racism, anti-Semitism etc. However the recent report of Agency for Fundamental Rights pointing out that UK is on of the countries in Europe with rapidly growing racism, but I don’t expect that journalist of The Sunday Times will ever devote his attention to the problems of his own country and he will never compare racial problems in UK to Poland (at least kids in Poland don’t use shotguns, and the emigration to Poland is rather low because Poland is a poor country).
The another example came from Exeter. Polish student has been accused of rape and killing an English girl. He was jailed, sent from Poland to English custody. Local Police claimed that he was guilty, according to CCTV records (blurry picture). According to TVN 24 (Polish news channel) Local English Police didn’t regarded statements of the Polish witnesses. They were proving that he was doing something different and, proving his statement, that he was wearing completely different dress than the man (rapist) caught by CCTV. English officers didn’t want to check it. I am wonder why… and the simplest answer is assumption that they thought “we have a guilty one, and he is a Pole, he is not one of us”. Polish lad spent almost 8 months in English prison. Today his advocate stated that DNA tests proved that blood found on the body of raped girl is not a blood of Polish lad.
Mr John Cornwell, maybe you could investigate the case of our Polish emigrant (probably catholic) boy? Maybe he is not a murderer or rapist, but maybe he is racist and anti-Semitic only because he is Polish.
Here on my blog, I devoted at least a few of the entries to the case of Polish trouble makers, and I am the first to call Gardai or Police, but… the signals I am receiving from England (and sometimes from Ireland too) is the growing tendency of blaming emigrants of almost everything, and making them kind of scapegoats. Of course, I am not judging, if the Polish boy is guilty or not. However English police did that, avoiding some of the evidence and Polish witnesses.
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Nothing unusual about this it happens worldwide, in Britain you can find yourself charged with conspiring to commit crimes unknown against persons unknown in places unknown and detained at her majesty, Queen Elizabeth’s pleasure. The person in this case can could himself lucky, other’s have had to endure year’s in prison, as in the case of the following.
The Guildford Four
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guildford_Four
Birmingham Six
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_Six
in Ireland there are also similar incidents
Shocking Shortt story
http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2002/08/04/story265602628.asp
Truth about Sallins robbery
http://archives.tcm.ie/businesspost/2006/10/15/story18103.asp
I’m sure there are cases in Poland as well of police corruption and /or incompetence. In the English case, do they prefer to blame immigrants? Well, not expressly, they tend to pick on vulnerable people, who can’t defend themselves, this also includes native English people. Foreigners in many cases are an easy mark in any society, as they are not always familar with local laws, not speaking the local language and isolated from their community makes them vulnerable to corrupt police .