Life / Poland: Last Bastion of Europe [54]

And most neo-nationalists aren't too bright. They wouldn't think of any extenuating circumstances (if there can be any in a situation like that) - they just like violence against anyone they a. perceive as different, or b. they don't intellectually comprehend (which is most people).

Life / Poland: Last Bastion of Europe [54]

Doubtless there are plenty of Legia hools with a very chequered history

Life / Poland: Last Bastion of Europe [54]


If I were you, I wouldn't tell your 'ultras' that you were jailed for sexually grooming a 12 year old girl...
https://polishforums.com/usa-canada/jail-california-met-young-man-ancestry-whilst-69121/#msg1415512

Law / What if a foreigner doesnt want to get retired in Poland ? Retirement money back? [16]

They don't give the money back, and I doubt many people from outside the EU who've paid it have both paid enough years to qualify for a pension worth claiming as well as reaching statutory retirement age.

The money paid doubtless covers payments to those unable to pay into the scheme themselves due to poverty or disability.

News / Polish man tries to sell British mother into white slave trade [128]


Apparently yes, though it's unclear still whether Paweł Herba was part of the gang or just using their name as a smokescreen.

News / Polish man tries to sell British mother into white slave trade [128]


A clear example of 'whatiffery' there, I-S about the Polish kidnapper and his so-far unknown accomplice, who could be from anywhere, Rzeszów, Rome, Rwanda, Rotterdam or Rutland. I suppose his accomplice could be a one-legged black Muslim transgender lesbian, however there's no suggestion that s/he was. Herba isn't part of a minority group so far as anyone knows (and no difference if he is or if he isn't, and no information about Paweł Herba's victim.

Muddy thinking there, I-S.


He has admitted guilt.

I expect his trial will be publicised in detail and hopefully well-reported here.

News / Polish man tries to sell British mother into white slave trade [128]


No minorities involved here, I-S. A young woman was kidnapped. Hopefully the kidnapper Paweł Herba, will be punished appropriately. I wonder if he'll try to get a transfer from an Italian jail back to Poland.

Real Estate / How Poles can pay wlasny? (mortgage) [16]


From family, inheritance, loans, securities. Some people have far more in savings than you'd expect, plus money within a family.

News / Polish man tries to sell British mother into white slave trade [128]


Yes - who knows what Paweł Herba was up to back home.

News / Polish man tries to sell British mother into white slave trade [128]


Basically yes.It's news, it's relevant to Poland, but all you see is people trying to distract from the actual news reports about Paweł Herba and the crimes he's admitted to.

News / Polish man tries to sell British mother into white slave trade [128]

Indeed. I suspect he only confessed because he knew he wouldn't get away with it. This bit (from the Mirror article) is chilling:
"It is not known whether he assaulted her sexually, though he told a court in Milan that he had been "physical". With no buyers and his accomplice gone, Herba decided to release her after seven days."

News / Polish man tries to sell British mother into white slave trade [128]


The gang (assuming Paweł Herba was really part of it and not just a wannabe) have quite a presence on the Dark Web.

News / Polish man tries to sell British mother into white slave trade [128]


I'm sure there was an element of that. Perhaps he didn't realise how seriously kidnapping is taken by the authorities, or though he could lie his way out of it.

News / Polish man tries to sell British mother into white slave trade [128]


Probably a strong accent and limited language skills in, say, French. Easier to lie if questioned.

Either that, or he's got a contact who specifically provides them.

News / Polish man tries to sell British mother into white slave trade [128]

A bit more on the case:
"According to Italian police Herba, 30, a Polish citizen based in Britain, obtained a false Polish passport under the name Daniel Zawada through the internet in May and used it to rent the two properties in Italy. He is also alleged to have acquired two balaclavas and a Bitcoin device on the web. The car used in the crime was purchased in Poland last month."

mirror.co.uk/news/shes-been-through-hell-family-10939027

News / Polish man tries to sell British mother into white slave trade [128]

"She was then injected with horse tranquilliser ketamine and photographed naked before being stuffed in the case and driven 120 miles to a farmhouse near Turin.

She was kept handcuffed to a wooden chest of drawers inside a rented house for a week."
mirror.co.uk/news/shes-been-through-hell-family-10939027

Looks like the young woman in question had a horrible time in Italy. I expect she'll be due compensation, however the mental scars will take a lot of time to heal. If this Herba person is found guilty, he'll be in an Italian jail for decades.

News / Polish man tries to sell British mother into white slave trade [128]

A bit more about the kidnapper:
"Lukasz Pawel Herba, 30, a Polish national from Szczecin who lives in the UK, was arrested by police and charged with the attack.

Police said he had confessed to the kidnapping, which investigators described as an elaborate plot that involved months of planning."
telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/05/british-model-kidnapped-milan-captor-tried-auction-online-for300000/

News / Polish man tries to sell British mother into white slave trade [128]

Here's some more about the British kidnap victim and the kidnapper:
"It's unclear whether the sole suspect arrested by Saturday, Lukasz Pawel Herba, 30, is connected to that original group or just used their name in order to frighten the victim and impress investigators.

"We don't know if the accused is linked to an organization or created his own version of Black Death," Bucossi said.

A Black Death promotional leaflet connected to Herba shows a drawing of doctors from the mid-1300s wearing hook-nosed "plague masks," that were wrongly believed at the time to protect against the foul air thought to carry the disease."

nypost.com/2017/08/05/accused-italian-kidnapper-linked-to-group-called-black-death/

News / Polish man tries to sell British mother into white slave trade [128]


In this case, a very big not.

"He claimed he was working on behalf of the "Black Death Group", an organisation which operates in the deep web for illegal traffics, police said." - this looks like a cross border issue.


Yes, the first country to ban it and enforce that ban.

News / Polish man tries to sell British mother into white slave trade [128]


This relates to a current kidnapping ring how?

News / Is pro-opposition Open Dialogue Foundation a cover for Russian interests [99]


Quite. They're's about as respectable as any organisation can get - everything they do is absolutely transparent. So Po, sadly for him, just makes up nonsense to malign them.

News / Polish man tries to sell British mother into white slave trade [128]


I doubt your 'sickness' has such symptoms as operating a 'kidnapping gang' who advertise on the Dark Web..

Real Estate / Buying an apartment at auction in Poland. Owners still present [11]

A weekend home in, say, Podlasie, can be nice, however in a small town maybe, not a village with no pub worth the name, no decent shop, neighbours that other Poles would avoid and nothing much within easy driving distance.


I would be too, however you'd be surprised how often this happens.

News / Polish man tries to sell British mother into white slave trade [128]


The rest of the gang are Russian and Serbian.

News / Is pro-opposition Open Dialogue Foundation a cover for Russian interests [99]


Rubbish. You 'may' be too, and that would be far more believable.

Life / Indian community in Poland [43]

Kaliningrad, Vladivostok, Sochi, or can it be anywhere? After all, it's a fairly small place.

History / For what the Germans owe Poland one trillion U.S. dollars? [299]


No, it is not 'doable'.

News / Is pro-opposition Open Dialogue Foundation a cover for Russian interests [99]


Terrified that the evidence will be aired publicly. Which it will.

History / For what the Germans owe Poland one trillion U.S. dollars? [299]


In what way could sending an unenforceable bill seventy years after the war for $1,000,000,000,000 (a third of their GBP) to Poland's biggest trading partner "benefit Poland"?

History / For what the Germans owe Poland one trillion U.S. dollars? [299]


Umm, he's the leader of the ruling party you mug