“We went to Germany because we wanted to erect a cross commemorating the murders committed by Germans against Poles. It was meant to be some form of redress for the wrongs done to the Polish nation,” Robert Bąkiewicz, who together with Polish patriots was attacked by German police in Berlin two days ago, told TV Republika today.
“We wanted to erect the cross in a place that is not off limits to visitors or to people moving around Berlin,” Bąkiewicz stressed, adding that it was intended to be a small patriotic ceremony, planned a year in advance.
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Let us recall that German police ruthlessly attacked a group of over a dozen Poles from the Border Defence Movement (ROG), aggressively forced them to the ground, handcuffed them and detained them for questioning.
“It is not true that people are not allowed to go to that place or that it has any special status. It is an ordinary park in the city centre, where anyone can enter, and what really bothered the Germans was simply the fact that we had a cross with us. When we were about 200 metres from our destination, someone must have reported to the police that Poles had arrived with a cross. As we were walking with the cross, several German police cars appeared. The Germans began shouting at us and tried to rip the cross away. And that is how the whole pacification operation began,”
Robert Bąkiewicz said.
