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Migrants carry ‘parasites and protozoa,’ warns Polish opposition leader
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| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Oct 18, 2015 05:02pm |
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| Author | Jan Cienski |
| News Date | Wednesday, October 14, 2015 11:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Warning that migrants carry “very dangerous diseases long absent from Europe,” the leader of the right-wing party that looks likely to win Poland’s October 25 parliamentary elections sought this week to turn Poles’ wariness towards Muslim refugees into a political issue.
Speaking at a rally earlier this week, Jarosław Kaczyński, a former prime minister and leader of the Law and Justice party, warned that Poland could be forced to resettle more than 100,000 Muslims.
He went on to say that migrants have already brought diseases like cholera and dysentery to Europe, as well as “all sorts of parasites and protozoa, which … while not dangerous in the organisms of these people, could be dangerous here.”
His comments caused an immediate stir, with some of his political rivals saying Kaczyński’s language smacked of the terms Nazis used to describe Jews.
“This is a reference to old, dangerous and dishonest sentiments from the time of the war,” said Marek Sawicki, the agriculture minister with the Polish People’s Party, the junior member of the ruling coalition.
Ewa Kopacz, the prime minister and leader of the ruling Civic Platform party, quickly said there was no secret plan to accept 100,000 refugees. |
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