Pagans candidates top Szczecin Self-Defense list for local elections
Mateusz Piskorski, who is the head of the Niklot pagan organization, is a
leading candidate on the Self-Defense list of candidates for the council
elections in Szczecin. Niklot's website is full of xenophobia and
anti-semitism as well as being anti-christian. "These religions are strange
to us and were introduced to this world by force," said Igor Gorewicz,
another Niklot candidate on the Self-Defense list. Although the organization
denies being a fighting squad, skinheads associated with Niklot are very
troublesome. Last year on their way to a Viking rally, they attacked and
caused severe bodily harm to several passengers on the Szczecin-Swinoujscie
train. This summer borderguards found swords, axes and arrows on a coach in
which they were travelling to meet fellow German pagans. In related news,
Bogdan Gasinski, who was Andrzej Lepper's informer supplying him with
evidence of alleged corrupt politicians, has been charged by the Warsaw
prosecutor of giving false testimony. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 1;
Rzeczpospolita, p. A5) A.Z.
