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jon357   
29 May 2017
UK, Ireland / Polish slave trader in the UK has sentence increased [56]

They are not "stats" they are wild estimates

The Global Slavery Index is well thought of. They do have a broad definition of slavery, and rightly so since it takes many forms, including here in Poland.
jon357   
29 May 2017
UK, Ireland / Polish smugglers caught and jailed [10]

Another case here, this one involving $9 million worth of countrfeit cigarettes produced in Poland and destined for illegal export:

Polish police, border guards and customs officers have smashed an international criminal gang producing and smuggling tobacco products to EU countries.

thenews.pl/1/9/Artykul/292439,Poland-smashes-international-tobacco-smuggling-gang

All praise to the Polish Police. We should have faith in their initiatives to stop Polish counterfeit cigarette smuggling culture, which is something of a tradition.
jon357   
29 May 2017
UK, Ireland / Polish smugglers caught and jailed [10]

This is a big thing. Aside from the lack of any quality control - these cigs could contain anything - it defrauds the public of the excise revenue:

A lorry driver caught smuggling 4.5 million illicit cigarettes into the UK hidden among a load of plasterboard has been jailed. Lucasz Walczak, 36, was investigated by HMRC after being stopped by Border Force officers at Eastern Docks in Dover.

kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/cigarette-smuggler-caught-red-handed-123588/

Counterfeit cigarettes are a big thing here too, many unfit for use.
jon357   
29 May 2017
UK, Ireland / Polish slave trader in the UK has sentence increased [56]

With reference to that Global Slavery Index, they're clearly a bona fide and reputable source of information who've conducted quite painstaking research

They're actually very thorough. It is a huge problem here.

Oh please, council workers couldn't keep up with the removal of the fliers. T

That is actually a serious problem here in central Warsaw.

re-plastering

Small glueless cards. Few in number. Unlike the blizzard of shiny fliers here for Polish prostitutes.
jon357   
29 May 2017
UK, Ireland / Polish slave trader in the UK has sentence increased [56]

The scale of this seems huge:

Police have smashed a human trafficking ring which moved more than 230 people into the UK to claim more than £2million in illegal benefits.
Officers arrested 29 suspects as they gathered for a wedding in Poland

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2056967/Polish-gang-trafficked-200-people-Britain-illegally-claim-2m-benefits.html

a few months ago there was a case in Ireland

Was that this case?

Wojciech Gendarz was charged ... trafficking of Polish nationals ...sexual exploitation. The Polish national, who was born in September 1978, ....... Garda David Kelly told Dublin District Court that Mr Gendarz was arrested at Dublin Airport

newstalk.com/Man-arrested-in-Dublin-charged-in-connection-with-investigation-into-human-trafficking
jon357   
29 May 2017
UK, Ireland / Polish slave trader in the UK has sentence increased [56]

Here's another case. Shocking:
"Two brothers who trafficked vulnerable men from Poland to work in a Sports Direct warehouse have been jailed for six years each under the Modern Slavery Act. Erwin Markowski, 38, and his brother Krystian, 35, lured 18 men from Poland"

theguardian.com/business/2017/jan/23/brothers-jailed-trafficking-poland-sports-direct-shirebrook

Then where did

Where did the idea

he entire insides of the boxes would always be wallpapered over

come from...
jon357   
29 May 2017
UK, Ireland / Polish slave trader in the UK has sentence increased [56]

It is estimated that 181,100 people live in modern slavery in Poland, which is by far the largest number in the EU.

That is actually shocking.

the entire insides of the boxes would always be wallpapered over with prostitution fliers.

No. If you'd ever actually been in one, you'd know how silly that sounds.

Here in Warsaw though, the streets are knee-deep with them.
jon357   
29 May 2017
News / Mysterious death of Magdalena Żuk on holiday in Egypt [144]

they prefer to point at the Polish

This is an English language forum about Poland. Hence discussion of matters Polish, including the tragic death of a tourist which has taken up so many column inches here in Poland.
jon357   
29 May 2017
News / After 77 years, Krakow school does the right thing [40]

No one had been forced to join Jewish Police in getto,

You're trying to suggest that Jewish people during the holocaust had a wide range of life choices?

Classic victim blaming.
jon357   
29 May 2017
News / After 77 years, Krakow school does the right thing [40]

close collaboration

Brutally forced collaboration is a more accurate expression.

However, most weren't able to "buy their way" out of extermination

Yes. very few were able to do anything at all.
jon357   
29 May 2017
News / Mysterious death of Magdalena Żuk on holiday in Egypt [144]

it didnt established,whenever she jumped herself or was pushed ,or throw out of window.

The witnesses, all hospital staff, certainly did establish that she jumped out of the window while trying to flee drom a psychiatric ward.

Not a good word

Quite.
jon357   
28 May 2017
News / Mysterious death of Magdalena Żuk on holiday in Egypt [144]

Any chance you can post a link to her medical history?

They can't, not that there need be any. Some people have no shame whatsoever and just revel in the most tasteless conspiracy theories. This was a simple matter.

It reminds me of the (Polish) woman whose teenage daughter got knocked up on holiday and she pretended that it was due to globs of sperm floating in the hotel swimming pool.
jon357   
28 May 2017
Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [564]

it isn't Islam that's bad, as with guns or firearms in and of themselves, rather those who continually abuse the basic goodness of the Qu'ran, the Bible, the Upanishads or whichever book is said to hold "truth" for its followers!!

Spot on.

Fifth requestto

As many as you like...
jon357   
28 May 2017
News / Mysterious death of Magdalena Żuk on holiday in Egypt [144]

hat girl got insane within few hours is more likely conspiracy theory

That doesn't make much sense.

dragging young girl,

Not one shred of evidence to support that happening to the tourist - although conspiracy theorists would love it to be so..
jon357   
28 May 2017
News / Mysterious death of Magdalena Żuk on holiday in Egypt [144]

,its not something common that people get insane over night.if possible.

It is actually very common that underlying problems develop into a crisis very suddenly.

not saying they drugged her,

There's no serious suggestion that anything like that happened. Just pernicious conspiracy theories and prurient smut in tabloids.
jon357   
28 May 2017
Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [564]

Go , as a christian or as an atheist, and try to start your own movement in an islamic country. You

You probably haven't seen the new cathedral in Dubai.

Or the impotent anger posted on here when a small new mosque was built in Warsaw.
jon357   
28 May 2017
News / Mysterious death of Magdalena Żuk on holiday in Egypt [144]

I think that is what people are suggesting, isnt it?

Basically it's become a focus for all sorts of outlandish conspiracy theories during a period when there isn't much elsein the news here.

a young lone woman in an country with a very different culture

Certainly being stuck on her own in Marsa Alam can't have made anything easier for her.

might have been raped

As far as I know, the only suggestions for this came from conspiracy theorists. Nobody knows yet what triggered her psychotic episode, however the idea of a white woman being ravaged by Egyptians appeals to the tabloid press. She has has two autopsies, one of them in Poland, and no signs of any violence were found.
jon357   
28 May 2017
Life / Why are Muslims seen as a deterrent to Poland? [564]

What about the Tatars?

There are some Tatar Mosques in Poland, the oldest of them there for centuries.

Tatars are often not considered to be mulims

This is untrue.