{"id":41322,"date":"2019-07-28T15:14:50","date_gmt":"2019-07-28T19:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=41322"},"modified":"2019-07-28T15:14:50","modified_gmt":"2019-07-28T19:14:50","slug":"going-back-to-my-old-home-town-no-way-in-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sidebarforplaintiffs.naomifein.net\/?p=41322","title":{"rendered":"Going back to my old home town? No way in hell"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my old “home towns” is Bialystok, Poland.<\/a><\/p>\n

Which is currently caught up in violent protests:<\/a><\/p>\n

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BIALYSTOK, Poland \u2014 The marchers at the first gay pride parade here in the conservative Polish city of Bialystok expected that they would be met with resistance.<\/em><\/p>\n

But last week when Katarzyna Sztop-Rutkowska saw the angry mob of thousands that awaited the marchers, who numbered only a few hundred, she was shocked.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe most aggressive were the football hooligans, but they were joined by normal people \u2014 people with families, people with small children, elderly people,\u201d she said.<\/em><\/p>\n

They blocked her way, first hurling invective, then bricks and stones and fireworks, she said. From the balconies, people threw eggs and rotten vegetables. Even before the march started, there were violent confrontations, and by the time the tear gas cleared and the crowd dispersed, dozens were injured and Poland was left reeling.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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