Tens of thousands join Poland’s nationalist Independence Day march

Tens of thousands of nationalist sympathisers have gathered in Poland’s capital, Warsaw, for an Independence Day march, days after a mass shooting in Krakow killed six people. Participants carrying Polish flags assembled in central Warsaw on Wednesday, as police officers were deployed at the scene to secure the demonstration. The Independence Day march, which has long been a source of tension between right-wing groups and Poland’s governing centrists, has been held annually on November 11 since 1918 to commemorate the end of more than 100 years of partition by Russia, Prussia and Austria.