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Paulina   
27 Dec 2013
News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]

but it doesn't seem to be the case (or at least I hope it wasn't).

Just to clarify: I mean I don't think it was jon357's intention.

Why? The YEP is a provincial newspaper in the UK. It doesn't routinely cover crime stories from the suburbs of foreign capitals.

Jon357, I meant Polish newspapers :)) There would be articles in Polish media about a second attack if those were two different incidents.

The colour doesn't suit.

lol OK ;)

it looks like two very different events.

Not really, jon357...
Paulina   
27 Dec 2013
News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]

I might be reading a bit too much in to it, it's true, but given some of the anti Polishness from some of these expats, I saw the title expecting it to try and show us that savage Polish people had attacked a poor civil British man, because he was a foreigner [or because he was British].

Well, I understand, but it doesn't seem to be the case (or at least I hope it wasn't).
Paulina   
27 Dec 2013
News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]

Dou you know who was the first to use the knives ?

*sigh*

No, I don't.
My guess is that those who were stabbed weren't even carrying knives in the first place.
But it will be arbitrated by the court that will probably know more than we do, so don't worry.

A seasonal party? For Christmas!

So you're not wearing Santa Claus hats or sth? :) ;)

Looking again at the YEP article and those Polish ones, I really do think they could be about different incidents.

I think it's quite possible they are about the same incident.
If they weren't then there would be articles about the one described in the YEP too.
Are there?

Funny that the title of the topic says 'British teacher stabbed in Poland,' as if he might have been stabbed because he was British

I think you're reading too much into it. It's an expat forum, it's natural they're interested in what happens to their own people.
Paulina   
27 Dec 2013
News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]

Perhaps in your experience. I've been to a seasonal party before then. A work one, for Christmas. In Poland.

Well, of course I've attended a company's Christmas supper before, but it can't be really called a party, it's more like a Christmas Eve supper and it doesn't take place at someone's flat, but is organised by the company in some hotel and usually not in the middle of December.

Was your seasonal party organised at someone's flat? I'm curious who organised it - Poles or the British/Americans?

And what's the difference between a seasonal party and an ordinary party? Don't hit me, I'm curious ;)

(And don't worry, jon357, I'm not trying to justify the attack or sth :))

The written law is based on the meaning given in the dictionaries

Noone will interpret it in the way that being loud was somehow a provocation and that it somehow justified the attack with the use of knives.
Paulina   
27 Dec 2013
News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]

Nothing about any provocation to be murdered.

Um... I'm not writing about any provocation o_O

Seasonal parties aren't only the night before Christmas. And it does specifically mention colleagues.

Jon357, I am not aware of anything called "seasonal parties" in Poland. If someone is throwing a party on, let's say, the 15th of December, then it's just a party, not a "Christmas party" or a "seasonal party". Christmas time in Poland is from 24 to 26 of December and that's it.

Btw, we don't know that those Polish articles even refer to the same crime.

True, but if they do, then I think calling it a "Christmas party" is probably a bit too much ;)
Paulina   
27 Dec 2013
News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]

Ty reading the article.

I've read the article and all it says is "stabbed at a Christmas party".

Not that work Christmas parties can't be through December.

?

Well, it doesn't say anything about "a work Christmas party". All it says is "a flat party" (in the Yorkshire Evening Post).

Polish articles were published on the 16th so the attack probably took place on the 15th or earlier.
Also, the Polish articles don't even say anything about "a party". They only say about 5 men drinking and being loud on a staircase.

At first, when I read about that "Christmas party" in the Yorkshire Evening Post I thought it's some kind of a British tradition (is it?). That's why I got curious about the dates.

I mean that they do not call you people from your region scyzorki for nothing.

Well, they call people from Kraków "centusie", and? lol
Liroy popularised this name with his rap song in the 90's :)
But, as I wrote, it's not the 90's anymore, sorry :))
Paulina   
27 Dec 2013
News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]

I mean that nobody busted into somebody's apartment for a mysterious reason.

OK.

Not that they should be stabbed for that but they should be wiser than that.

Well, being loud and obnoxious doesn't usually end with someone getting stabbed unless you're in some really bad neighbourhood. And yes, Warsaw's Praga would be such neighbourhood, I guess, from what I've heard.

Are you sure sure? :P

What do you mean? About where I'm from? Yeah, I'm pretty sure about that lol
Paulina   
27 Dec 2013
News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]

what are you arguing about? I', only saying that nothing looks like have been described in that newspapers.

I don't understand what you're saying. What do you mean by "nothing looks like have been described in that newspapers"?

As for people not walking with knives in Poland, are you sure you are from K.?:)

Yes, I am sure and it's not the 90's anymore :)

I have only pointed out that it seems at it was five to two, seems rather unlikely that two dudes attacked five dudes. Seems to be rather strange. .

So what's so strange about it? What do you think happened? There were in fact three men with knives? Four men? You know that four men were arrested?

We don't know who started it, of course, and how. My impression is that the men with knives were looking for trouble, not those that were stabbed.

Whether it was somehow provoked or not, the fact is that one man is dead, one is in critical condition and two other were hurt. So those two (or more) men with knives must have been very "efficient".
Paulina   
27 Dec 2013
News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]

That we don't know what had happened apart from the fact that two people apparently used knife. We don't know which side have been an aggressor and who started that row? That all I'm saying basing it on the fact that there were two people against five. We don't know.

Ironside, normal people don't walk with knives in Poland and don't stab people. Do you understand?
If someone is being too loud, normal people call the police. One side got stabbed, the other didn't apparently.
For me it's really no rocket science.

Worse? No, Mafia were shooting out between themselves, it had nothing to do with people ready to stab others on a slightest provocation.

I didn't write it was only about mafia. And you think the mafia doesn't affect normal people? What about the racket?
Paulina   
27 Dec 2013
News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]

After all those alleged thugs showed unusual restrain, it wouldn't be characteristic for western European thugs..

Well if it was a qestion of two attacking five that would indeed rise a qestion what has really happened there.

Ironside, what on Earth are you talking about? The facts are that four men were stabbed and apparently the attackers were unharmed.
If there are five men, but on the other side there are two men with knives then what are the odds?
The fact that someone is a teacher doesn't make him an angel automatically, we also don't know who were the other men attacked, but I don't think you're being objective.

We don't know what happened. The court will decide.

European influence maybe, people are coming back from places and bringing back unhealthy custom form those places

I doubt that, tbh. I've lived through the 90's and it was worse back then. News about the mafia on regular basis, cars exploding, murders, etc.

Things get worse during a crisis, that's all there is to it, I think.
Paulina   
27 Dec 2013
News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]

What doesn't fit is that none of the Polish media mention an English victim. Put simply, British people getting stabbed here is unusual, and unusual is newsworthy.

Well, I guess you're right, but, again, for me too many facts are the same.

As to more stabbings, it does seem that way, although still far fewer than in the UK. Could it be the media here now report them more? Or that Poles who spent time in the UK are bringing back some of the unpleasant things about the UK along with the good things?

I don't think so, Harry, there have been more child killings by parents too. Everyone I talked to about it noticed it too. And after a while the media noticed it too and made a material about it on the news. One could think that it's because of the famous case of Katarzyna Waśniewska who killed her daughter, Magda, but somehow I don't think so - child killings were reported before, some cases were famous too. And those stabbings... The football hools' violence... I think it's because of the economic crisis. Something was bound to happen eventually.
Paulina   
27 Dec 2013
News / British teacher stabbed in Poland [116]

Strange how none of the articles mention that one of the victims was English, not even one of them.

What's so strange about it? No names are mentioned in the articles, as far as I've noticed.

And also strange how those articles are about five victims, while the original one is about four victims.

No, they aren't about five victims. Articles posted by ShortHairThug say that five people were partying.
Four were stabbed, one of them died, one is in a critical condition.
So it's like in the article in The Yorkshire Evening Post: "He was one of four colleagues who were knifed". And "One man, a Polish friend of 40-year-old Mr Johnson, died". Also, about the British guy: "David Johnson said it was "touch and go" whether he would survive." And there's this: "One person managed to get away" - I guess it was the fifth guy that wasn't knifed.

So it seems all of the above fits.

Could it be that there was more than one stabbing in the Warsaw region in the same week? I wonder.

Could be, but too many facts are the same in my opinion, tbh.
First the complaints about the noise, then the attackers come back and stab them.
Four men knifed, one of them dies, one is in a critical condition.
The things that don't match is bursting into a flat and that, according to the YEP article, three men were arrested and according to Polish articles four men were arrested, two of them suspected to be the attackers. Maybe simply the YEP didn't get everything right, it happens.

Especially the stuff about location.

Exactly. While one can call Praga many things, 'surrounded by a forest and overlooking a lake' isn't one of those things.

The article in the YEP doesn't say that the party took place at the British guy's house or flat.
Warszawski wrote on the previous page of this thread "Sounds like the English guy was attending a party and it was his colleagues flat."

And you've agreed with him, jon357: "This is exactly how it looks. I doubt he had a flat in the middle of a forest."

All in all, I may be wrong, of course, but it looks to me that it's the same event.

Somehow it's hard to believe they themselves are innocent in all of that and got their arse kicked just for the hell of it.

If you are looking for trouble you'll find it.

Not really.
It's not hard to believe at all. There was a very publicised case some time ago when some thug started harassing a student girl, I think, and her boyfriend told him to stop it and the thug stabbed him to death in broad daylight, if I remember correctly. There was a march against violence after that in the city, I think. I don't remember where it was, Poznań maybe? There are deranged thugs that can kill you for no reason. And I've noticed there have been more kife attacks in Poland since some time then there used to be.
Paulina   
25 Dec 2013
Love / Why are Polish girls so confusing? [30]

Thanks for your kind comments Paulina :-)

You're welcome :)

I'm not saying that all grils in a certain country would kiss on the first date but that I think more would do so than in Poland.

Let's assume more women are also likely to get involved in one-night stands in other countries than in Poland. Would you then call not getting involved in one-night stands "a custom" in Poland? ;)

majority of grils do not kiss on the first date, I'm not saying wheather it is right or wrong, just is;

I don't care if you consider this right or wrong, I'm just saying it isn't sth that can be called a custom in my opinion :) I don't even know whether majority of girls in Poland don't kiss on the first date. Things could change since you left Poland (that was years ago, right?)

Anyway, Ironside, whatever ;) You consider it a custom, I don't. It's a non-issue for me, I'm not sure why we're even discussing it... lol

But now I'm curious - is it really so common to kiss on a first date in other countries? Gentlemen? Ladies? What's your experiences? :)
Paulina   
25 Dec 2013
Love / Why are Polish girls so confusing? [30]

Ironside, thank you for the definition, but I still don't see it as a custom (zwyczaj). I've never heard anyone saying: "Oh, I never kiss on the first date, people don't do this around here." lol There's no fixed rule that people don't kiss on a first date, but for sure they will kiss on the second or sth xD

Giving flowers to a woman, opening the door for her - that's what I'd call a custom.
I've noticed in the American films that there's this "third date rule" in the US (third date means sex) but there's no such thing in Poland and even that "third date rule" isn't really considered "a custom" in the US, is it?
Paulina   
25 Dec 2013
Love / Why are Polish girls so confusing? [30]

Well, if we are talking generally it is about custom.

Well, I wouldn't call it "a custom", it's not like it's some fixed rule or sth. But I don't know that much about dating outside Poland, so maybe you know better than me :)

But come on, why the hell would she accept hanging out with me just to tell she had a bf when I tried to kiss?

Ah, I forgot that she said she had a bf. Did her friends confirm that she really wasn't single? I'm confused by this part...
Paulina   
25 Dec 2013
Love / Why are Polish girls so confusing? [30]

Doesn't matter,

What if it does? :) Sankarin is looking for advice and I'm trying to help.
It isn't important what you think matters or doesn't matter, it's important what mattered for those girls sankarin wanted to kiss.
He wanted to kiss them, not to kiss you xD
So I'm giving my perspective on the issue as I'm both a woman and a Polish woman lol ;)

some other nationalities do not have that custom that kiss on the first date is no no.

It's not about some custom. Some girls/women need time. I think women in general usually need more time than men. Think of dating as a foreplay. Men don't need foreplay, but it's often a must for women.

Furthermore, girls/women who are looking for a relationship may be put off by a guy who's moving too fast in the physical direction, because they may see it as a sign of him wanting only sex.

Also, women who are looking for a relationship don't want be seen as "easy", because men (at least in Poland) usually don't consider such women as gf material.

Of course, there are women who will have no problem with kissing on a first date or even having sex on a first date or one-night stands but then sankarin should look for such women.

After all if you agreed to date a guy surely at lest you gonna kiss him.

xD
If it's a first date then I agreed to this date to get to know the guy! lol It doesn't necessarily mean I'll kiss him. Sure, if the guy is really handsome or hot and charming and interesting and altogether irresistible then the woman may just throw herself at him lol

It all depends, really, probably on quite a few factors. It's not a simple mathematical equation that you can apply to every case, to every woman :P

Why wait?

Because the woman may not feel like kissing just yet? Because she needs more time?
Damn, I feel like I'm talking to people from a different planet right now, you know? ;D What the hell...

Well, I don't think all of them was looking for a serious one too. Not that I wasn't but I just prefer letting it go and if it turns out it will become serious, then why not?

OK, sankarin, but you don't know what they were looking for and I don't know that either.
I'm just telling you what impression I got from your attitude shown in your first post.

But something I forgot to mention is that one of them had a bf and still used to hang out with other guys (i know cheating is not only among polish girls, just pointing out this one wasnt in fact looking for a serious relationship).

Um... Hanging out with your male friends isn't cheating yet, so what do you mean by hanging out?
Sometimes beautiful women complain they have problems with making friends among women and so they have male friends mainly.
If that wasn't the case and she was cheating on her bf, then what did you want from her? Sex?
If she was cheating on her bf it was very likely she was a player, so what did you expect from her? That she won't play with you? lol

I'm 23 now.

OK, that's young indeed ;)
I suspect the girls you were after were your age or younger.
I think it may be often the case girls/women at that age aren't terribly mature yet and they don't always know what they want.

Some girls from Poland may also come from traditional regions in Poland and sometimes maybe it's good to take this into account. What I mean is that some girls at your age may still be virgins (which is apparently very unusual in the West). Let's take my example - I'm a rather religious person living in a conservative region of Poland and it took me three years of knowing a guy and then being his gf for almost a year before... you know... :)

And yes it was in the first date, but I knew them from before, so it wasnt like i was a strange.

OK, but some girls/women need time to warm up to a man. To get to know him better, to feel more comfortable around him and comfortable enough to kiss with him. That's like... basic, obvious stuff... for me, at least, apparently o_O

Well, I just found out they are the most beautiful in the world =). And yes, they are all nice, kind, even smiley, although some can look really serious and mad.

Another one bites the dust... lol

But maybe the challenge of not getting a clue from them is making me more attracted to them.

That would be my guess.

Thank you man! Just think the same. People must know how to give and get a no when it's no. Would be much easier than bearing this doubt in mind and wondering what did u do wrong when she went away or maybe.

Then don't date Polish girls xD

Make sense. But come on, why the hell would she accept hanging out with me just to tell she had a bf when I tried to kiss? I made it clear my intentions. Besides, after this day I kept listening from their friends she was jealousy when I was talking to any of them and even my polish boss came to me to tell this girl was into me. I agree it all sounds very childish, but that's how it all happened.

Sankarin, she may see you as a playboy going after many girls at a time. So on one side she may find you attractive, but on other maybe she thinks you're a player or sth.

Or maybe, as I wrote, she needed time. The fact that she didn't kiss you, doesn't mean she didn't like you. Maybe she wanted you to ask her on another date and not hit on other girls at the same time. This is called "courtship" ;)

I honestly don't know, I don't have a crystal ball at my disposal and I don't have all the answers. Maybe she's just weird, or maybe she's shy or God knows what lol Girls have their issues too, you know :)

Did you have any particular interest in this girl, or did you date her only because her friends told you she was into you? If you were interested in her then you should've tried to talk to her and ask her about it. Or simply you should've ask her out again for a second date. Because I guess you didn't?

BS you have really good stuff back there in Brazil

Indeed, it sounds weird coming from a Brazilian lol

@ f stop, I love it :-). I think it's pretty much a universal characteristic of women to want to be desired.

I think it's pretty much a universal characteristic of people in general :)

Besides that, I agree with everything what Englishman wrote. That's a grown up, mature man. Watch and learn, sankarin ;)

Any of these possibilities exists every time you ask a woman out. The trick is to listen to her and understand her and endeavour to work out which is the case. If she wants something different to you, thank her for the date and move on. If you have common ground and you both enjoyed it, ask her again.

Exactly, that's what dating and talking is for, among others.
Paulina   
24 Dec 2013
Love / Why are Polish girls so confusing? [30]

Notice I said relationship. It's not about sex.

Well, sankarin, someone who writes sth like this "To get a kiss out of themI had to spoil and speak a lot until they felt confident enough and went for it." doesn't strike me as someone looking for a relationship.

When I say go for it I mean kissing, not going for a rape like sex attempt.

I understood what you meant lol
How old are you?
At which date were you trying to kiss them first?

Again, don't take this aggressive approach as I'm a latin horny as hell, that sounds a bit offensive.

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend you as a Latin guy, my posts weren't written in a very serious manner, if you haven't noticed :)

It's just there are some stereotypes about Italian men among Polish women (both positive an negative) and I was thinking that maybe Brazilian men are similar in some ways to Italian men. And let's be honest, most men are horny, no matter what nationality :P xD

The point is those girls do just the opposite of what they are supposed to when it comes to giving out cues they are into someone according to what Ive learnt along so far.

Well, let's assume you're not a troll or a sex tourist...
What I've often read and heard is that Polish girls are nice.
When they go on a date and they realise they aren't attracted to the guy it is likely they won't make him feel this. They'll try to end this in a nice and most humane way possible in order not to hurt the feelings of the boy or guy in question.

If you approach them and they aren't interested they apparently aren't likely to tell you "f**k off", but they'll say sth like "I have a bf" or "I'll be going soon, sorry", "I'm with my friends", etc. Or they really have a bf, or they're going soon, etc. of course.

I imagine some girls need an ego boost from time to time, I honestly don't know.
I can tell you that I am one of those stereotypical nice Polish women lol It even happened that I agreed to kissing a man although I didn't feel attracted to him, just to not hurt his feelings. So such things happen.

She had to leave early this night so I couldnt do much about, but in the next day she hit me on facebook and went on with the music issue but nothing besides happened even though I told her to let me know in case she would be free for the weekend, which she didnt.

Either she wasn't interested in a romantic way or you should inquire about that weekend again and tell her that you'd like to meet with her.

And yes, Wulkan is right, as far as I've noticed.
You're Brazilian and not that bad looking, as you say, I guess you had some success with girls from other nationalities so you shouldn't have problems - in theory.

So, yes, if you have problems, as it seems, then take it slow, be respecful.

Why are you so fixed on Polish girls anyway?
Paulina   
24 Dec 2013
Love / Why are Polish girls so confusing? [30]

xD
I think the thread title should be more like "Why girls are so confusing? A simple and quick guide for boys on how to undress a girl without too much fuss and talking" xD

Maybe I'm being mean now... :P

Oh wait... What kind of advice Roosh' fans would give to our pursuer of Polish girls?
Hmm...
Get them drunk! :D
Make them believe you're staying in Poland longer than one/two weeks (in other words - lie) :)
Tell them German women are ugly! xD

That's all I remember...
;)
Paulina   
24 Dec 2013
Love / Why are Polish girls so confusing? [30]

For my surprise she refused to turn her lips toward mine and kiss

Oh, the shock! xD The horror! (Oh, I'm having fun, I'm sorry lol)

but I don't have that much patience anymore

Maybe you should try brothels or sth then :P

To get a kiss out of them I had to spoil and speak a lot until they felt confident enough and went for it.

Oh dear, that must've been a pain for you... ;)

Well, I don't know what to tell you, since I don't know personally the women (or rather girls, since you sound young, I guess) you wrote about.

Either those girls wanted just to hang out with you, make friends, rather than sth romantic, or you came through with your "aggressive approach" as a horny, creepy Latin guy who wants to f**k them on the first date and you freaked them out :) (but that's just my guess)

So I really would love to hear from polish girls what's on their mind when it comes to relationships. I heard that polish guys can be really slow most of the times so maybe thats the way I should behave when I try to approach next time.

I think you should be yourself. Some girls will like it, others won't.

And it depends on what you want, I guess. If you're looking for sex only then you should go to clubs, I suppose? I don't know, I'm sure expats here can give you more info about that lol Oh, and apparently according to some very reliable study Polish women in the UK are more "promiscuous" than in Poland, so maybe you should try your luck there :)))
Paulina   
8 Dec 2013
Life / Lack of human rights in Poland? [132]

Szczecinianin, are you friends with Macierewicz? :D I assume you have some kind of crystal ball at your disposal? :D
OMG...

If all you have to go on is prejudice, there is little or no sense in debating with you.

The pot calling the kettle black :D
As we see here:

It was a cheap propaganda exercise to make the public believe the police were doing their job effectively, by arresting a harmless group of normal fans, and portraying them as something they were not.

And you know that how? :D
How do you know they were harmless, how on Earth do you know they weren't carrying knives?
You simply don't know that.
Paulina   
7 Dec 2013
Life / Lack of human rights in Poland? [132]

You did,

No, I didn't. Prove otherwise (a link and a quote).

and you admitted having done so.

No, I didn't! LOL I wrote that I didn't refuse to watch any links you provided. Are you blind?

Imho. any further interaction with you is pointless.

LMAO

You have no shame, do you? :D

As I already wrote, I won't let you weasel out of this so easily :)
Provide a link to back up what you wrote - that knives, etc. were found in hotel rooms, not on Lazio fans.
Paulina   
6 Dec 2013
Life / Lack of human rights in Poland? [132]

The information isn't false.

Then provide links.

You refused to watch the links I posted and relied on what a friend had told you.

No, I didn't refuse to watch any links you posted. And I simply repeated what Lenka's friend told her about destroyed door.

You have admitted this in the post above.

What on Earth are you talking about? What have I admitted?
Paulina   
6 Dec 2013
Life / Lack of human rights in Poland? [132]

I'm not lying though, am I.

Yes, you are. Or you simply don't remember what I wrote.

I asked you time and time again to actually watch the documentary you were complaining so bitterly about, I even provided you with a link to enable you to do so, but you refused,

No, I didn't refuse! lol I even wrote that I'll probably watch it some time :D I never wrote that I don't want to watch it or that I'll never watch it.

and kept writing, "a good friend told me, over and over and over again."

No, I didn't keep writing about it "over and over again".

Therefore, I have good reason to believe you are not seriously interested in 'evidence'.

Well, szczecinianin, I have good reasons to think that you're not objective and that you're prejudiced.
Still, I believe there's still hope for you and that you can change :)

What interests you is whether you believe someone has said something 'good' or 'bad' about Poland, and this is how you go about forming your judgements.

You're talking nonsense. I form my judgements based on people's comments. Sweeping, unfair generalisations are sweeping, unfair generalisations. Talking nonsense is talking nonsense. Not providing links is not providing links. Giving false information is giving false information. And if you must know, you're the author of one of the most shocking comments for me personally coming from Westerners I've ever read on this forum. No, not in this thread. Although you bewildered me here with your comments too.

Again, whatever you think I did or didn't do in previous discussions is not a reason to give people here on PF false information.

Provide links to back up what you wrote.
Paulina   
6 Dec 2013
Life / Lack of human rights in Poland? [132]

As you might say, 'a good friend told me'.

Oh no, no, no, I'm not going to get you away with this so easily.
I provided a BBC link in some of our previous discussions, you provide a reliable link too.
If you don't, it will mean you're talking out of your ass, as you people say.

You didn't want to look at the evidence the last time we had a discussion, despite repeated requests to do so, so why this time?

Again, prove that I didn't want to look at some evidence you provided or stop lying.
And whatever you think I did or didn't do in previous discussions, this doesn't give you the right to give false information to people on this forum.

So, I won't let you weasel out of this.
Provide links.

That's why I don't take you seriously as a poster.

Szczecinianin, I really don't care whether someone who claims being stabbed with a kitchen knife is a laughing matter takes me as a serious poster or not, let's put it that way :))

You've compromised yourself to such an extent that I don't consider you as an equal debater anymore, yet I'm ready to continue debate. And I have arguments, unlike you, I guess.

I must say I'm disappointed, with every discussion you seem to show your true colours more and more.

I am reasonably confident about what I have written, as I have researched it all thoroughly.

Really? Have you researched stabbings with the use of kitchen knives too? Probably also "thoroughly"? lol :)

But I think attempting to convince an 'Ironside light' type poster such as yourself would be a waste of my time and energy as you don't appear to have an open mind in such matters.

:D Are you kidding me? You're not even willing to provide any link! It's laughable.

I believe that's what most of them did.

You "believe"?

However, we are talking about a hundred-and-fifty arrests, at a high profile match, in the centre of a capital city. It stretches credulity that a major incident could have taken place without anyone other than the police witnessing it.

It depends at what time it happened, where, and how do you know there were no other witnesses anyway?
And how come was it a "high profile match"?

According to this article:

300 Lazio fans came to the capital. Half of them arrested now

Although Lazio players on the field did not give any chances the Warsaw Legia, most of fans with the Eternal City will not return to their homes in good spirits, for now anyway is not even clearly known when they will return, because they stay is slightly extended.

To the capital came almost a 300-man team of Roman fans, but more than half of them do not reach the stadium. The result of thursday's match they learned from the police.

As we reported yesterday, police detained three groups of hooligans from Lazio. Today we know more details. Including, as it turned out yesterday morning, there were as many as 149.

warszawa.gazeta.pl/warszawa/1,34862,15049427,Do_stolicy_przyjechalo_300_fanow_Lazio__Polowa_zatrzymana.html

300 Lazio fans came to Warsaw, and half of them was detained.
The first gruop of Lazio fans was arrested on Wednesday evening in front of a hotel where there was some kind of brawl. My guess is that the hotel staff called the police.

17 people were arrested and most of them had knives, brass knuckles on them, and one guy even an axe.
And that's the charge - carrying dangerous tools in public places.

Two other groups were arrested on Thursday afternoon (one group - 50 people, the other - 80). They were throwing rocks, bottles and dust bins at the police. Some of them started putting balaclavas on their heads.

One police car was damaged.

I'm not sure what's so unbelievable about this?

Szczecinianin, you wrote that the Polish police are a bunch of incompetent cowards and that you doubt whether the Warsaw police are the brightest. What kind of thorough research gave you the right to make such sweeping and offensive generalisations about so many people?

I'll ask you a simple question.

If the Polish police are in general such lazy, stupid and incompetent cowards then how come Poland is a safe country?
Why do I read quite often here on PF what a safe country Poland is. It's the Westerners who often write that Poland is safer than their own city or town back home.

Why prisons are so full that people sentenced to jail time have to wait in line to get into prison?
Who's catching all those people, who's providing the evidence?
Leprechauns? Invisible elves? Fairies? Aliens? lol
Maybe you've caught them all by yourself?
Come on...

Considering that Poland is a poor country in comparison to the West and the Polish police is poor in comparison to the Western police, underfunded, unstaffed, not as well equipped as their Western counterparts, and not as respected as the police in the West, they must be doing something right if I feel safe in this country.

Taring with the same brush so many people doing hard, not well paid and often dangerous work is simply unfair.
Paulina   
6 Dec 2013
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Paulina, all that's lacking in your mountain of irrelevancies is any kind of proof that those arrested had done anything wrong .....

I'm sorry, szczecinianin, but you're not a judge and I'm not a prosecutor in this "case" and I'm not obliged to provide you with evidence lol

You're being ridiculous, I wasn't there, I wasn't even a witness of what happened, just as you weren't.

Noone has to get injured to be arrested! All you have to do is to attack a police officer.
In Germany you can get a fine for littering the sidewalk, ffs.

And, excuse me, "the Polish police"? So it's now the Polish police in general, not only the Warsaw police, huh? What's next? Policemen of Polish decent around the world? :D

Either there is evidence of wrong-doing on the part of those arrested or there is not.

Either the Polish police are competent or they are not.

Szczecinianin, at the very start you have already judged and hanged the whole Polish police without looking at any evidence!
You don't know what happened.
You have no evidence that the police did something wrong, that their actions were uncalled for.

Or should the Polish police be allowed to just do as they please without being criticised, for fear of offending Poles?

The police should do whatever possible in the frames of law to protect people from harm. Not as you please or as I please.
If the police did something wrong they'll answer before court for this.
I don't find criticism offending, not so long ago you could hear the criticism of the police for how they handled the Independence march from the news presenter at Fakty TVN, that's the biggest private TV station in Poland.

Don't worry, szczecinianin, Poles have brains too, we even have the intellectual capacity to criticise Poles and things in Poland (LOL).
But we also have the intellectual capacity to recognise prejudices and prejudiced people.
And that's what I don't like about you.
No, I'm not only basing my opinion on what you wrote in this thread, there were other times too.
Although, I must admit, what you wrote about laughing off being stabbed with a kitchen knife was really, I mean really pathetic on your part.

I also wonder if you were so eagerly defending Polish football "fans" if it was them who'd claim they're innocent and were doing absolutely nothing?

I somehow suspect you'd be praising the Polish police for dealing with neo-Nazi scum. Who cares about evidence if it's Poles, right? :)

The 'weapons' were allegedly found in hotel rooms. Those allegedly carrying them were deported to Italy before the match. None of the main group of supporters who were arrested on the day of the match were carrying weapons.

I've already asked you where did you read that knives, brass knuckles and an axe were found in hotel rooms.
You haven't answered.
So I'm asking you again.
Where did you read those things were found in hotel rooms?
I've read in articles that they were found on Lazio fans, not in their hotel rooms.

I don't trust the Polish police. Do you know about the incident in Gdynia, where a group of Mexican competitors at the tall ships races were attacked by football hooligans? (This was in August). The police didn't intervene, and arrested the competitors rather than the hooligans. The following day they falsely claimed it was the Mexicans who started the violence.

Any links?

And what do you mean by that "the police didn't intervene"? Policemen were standing there and watching Mexicans being beat up?
The police didn't come despite someone called them?
You know it took place on a beach? There was no police there. And that was the main allegation against the Gdynia police, that they didn't secure the beach despite they knew there was going to be a match. I guess noone thought that kibole can go to the beach and make trouble.

And that's why, as far as I can remember, the head of police in Gdynia resigned.
Paulina   
4 Dec 2013
Life / Lack of human rights in Poland? [132]

You don't arrest let alone charge people as a preemptive measure. It goes against all concepts of justice.

They didn't arrest them straight away after leaving airport or whatever. They arrested them after being attacked by them.

Would you arrest all men on the grounds that they are capable of rape?

No, but I would arrest a man throwing things at me :)

'Read' being the key word here. But no serious damage to persons or property reported.

Yes, "read", szczecinianin, since I wasn't there and, may I remind you - you weren't there either.
I read and you're doing some prejudiced guesswork.

But no serious damage to persons or property reported.

One of the Polish hools was arrested and sentenced to prison for offending a police officer during the Independence march.
It was all over the news.

I mean what I wrote. You refuse to look at evidence when it doesn't suit your argument.

No, I don't. Plenty of people do that on this forum, but I sure try not to do that at all.
So prove otherwise or stop lying about me and making unfounded, unprovoked, off-topic personal attacks.

You don't have any basic conception of 'justice', do you. What is relevant to any case is what the person or persons concerned did, and not the actions of others some years previously.

I have a basic and even an advanced conception of law and justice. Lazio fans attacked the police. If they didn't, there are courts to decide about this. The court will decide whether the police acted against the law, not me or you. I haven't been there, you haven't been there either and yet you act like you not only been there but even have some access to policemen thoughts.

Look who is talking. Why don't you stab yourself three times in your guts with a kitchen knife but no cheating and then came back here and tell us all about laughing it off.

:D

With that said, banning orders, confiscation of passports and mandatory reporting to police stations on certain dates have played a large roll in getting Britain's football hooligan problem under control. I just wish that the Poles would ask for some help with dealing with their problem.

Me too.

I'd agree with all that. Here you have the case of the Polish police acting against people they know little or nothing about.

You have absolutely no idea what they knew or they didn't know. Just as I don't.

And probably getting it wrong.

Probably you're prejudiced. No, wait... I'm pretty sure you are.

I doubt whether the Warsaw police are the brightest, and whether their cultural sensitivity is the highest.

You are on the same page with PiS, right-wingers, the Independence march organisers, hools and neo-Nazis then. Just saying :)

You know what...
According to you people the Polish police are lazy, stupid and must be doing everything wrong.
But I remember watching riots in Paris some years ago, cars burning, etc. and basically no police in sight...
Not so long ago - riots in London. Also basically no police in sight, judging by what I saw on BBC World, and I remember a small unit of police backing away from people throwing stuff at them.

Some buildings were burned, I guess we all remember a famous picture of a Polish woman jumping through a window from a burning building.

So, is the French and British police lazy, stupid, must be doing things wrong and can't be trusted to protect the law-abiding citizens and their property?
Paulina   
4 Dec 2013
Life / Lack of human rights in Poland? [132]

What did they do in Warsaw then, Paulina, to merit 150+ arrests?

Who, Lazio fans? As I wrote already this could be a preemptive measure taken by the police (as they knew what Lazio and Polish ultras are capable of). I don't mean the arrests themselves, since the police was attacked*, but the number of arrests.

*As I've read they've been arrested for attacking police officers and public disturbance. 149 of them have been released, 22 are still in custody.

But nice to see you looking at evidence for a change,

What do you mean in this cheap shot? Can't you conduct a discussion in a normal manner, as I'm doing it?

even if it isn't relevant to the case.

It is relevant.

Is it possible that the police had intelligence that there was going to be trouble in revenge for what happened in Rome a while ago, but they got it completely wrong?

It's possible they had intelligence, but what did they got completely wrong?

For me, it's ridiculous that they're going to such extremes against foreigners yet completely failing to do anything about the problems within domestic football.

I don't think it's ridiculous considereing the bad fame of Lazio fans.
In Poland during the Independence march things burn and in Italy fans are being stabbed by ultras.
I'm writing this to put things into perspective for you guys.
This doesn't mean I wouldn't want to be done more in Poland about Polish hools.

That's probably what happened. Overkill. If they wanted to prevent trouble all they had to do was stay with the Lazio fans. You can't arrest people for what you imagine they might do.

Looks like the police did - they followed them - and they got attacked.

They are lazy. The foreigners (particularly Italians) were easy targets.

Btw my Grandad had a cushy job in WW2. Guarding POWs. (Italians).

Those "easy targets" stab people in Italy. There were knives found on them and... an axe, OK? o_O

I don't know if they're lazy or not, but to be honest, I find it hard to sympathize with kibole no matter whether they're from Poland or from Italy.

Maybe it's not that bad that they've rounded them up and arrested them when you realise that thanks to this none of them had the opportunity to use one of those knives or a freaking axe on people?
Paulina   
4 Dec 2013
Life / Lack of human rights in Poland? [132]

I think it was mainly that it was more than twice as easy to arrest those Italians: the police had them outnumbered.

That could be the case, however, I can think of another reason too. My guess is they wanted to prevent greater trouble, a trouble that could end with someone dying.

Exactly. It should be the greater the threat/damage/disruption, the greater the police activity. The Warsaw police don't see things like that.

Maybe the Warsaw police read newspapers or at least watch the news:

I'm not that interested in football and I don't follow football news but even I've heard about those Lazio/Italian stabbings. And all that happened in 2012 and 2013, not 20 years ago, or whatever. I don't know of anyone stabbed during the Independence marches. Do you?

Lazio fans are apparently notorious for racist chants too. They are no angels, guys.
Paulina   
2 Dec 2013
Life / Lack of human rights in Poland? [132]

The 'sharp objects' were allegedly found in a search of their hotel rooms.

Where did you read that? According to the links posted here in this thread knives, brass knuckles and an axe were found on Lazio supporters, there's no mention of their hotel rooms.

I most probably would.

LOL

*smh*