British far-right joining forces with Polish neo-Nazis

The British far-Right is forging a sinister alliance with highly organised neo-Nazis in Poland.
Britain First deputy leader Jayda Fransen – currently on the run from police – has been in regular contact with extremists in Warsaw.

She reportedly plans to return to Poland after previously delighting a crowd of 10,000 at a rally in the country where fascists waved white supremacy flags and chanted racist slogans.
Across Britain, far-Right groups posing as respectable Polish patriots have set up cells to recruit youngsters via family days and seemingly innocent offers to help their community, while a former Polish wrestling champion has become a key lieutenant in Britain First.

Anti-racist campaigners warned it was part of a ‘deeply disturbing’ trend of British extremists developing links with larger, more regimented neo-Nazi organisations in Eastern Europe.

Ex-wrestling champion Marian Lukasik, who moved to the UK in 2004 and now lives in north London, told the Mail he has helped scores of Poles to join Britain First and attend its rallies in London and the Midlands. He said: ‘Many, many people call me and want to join. I’m not their leader but I help these people.’

Lukasik, who has called for German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s assassination over her immigration policy, was with Fransen when she addressed a far-Right rally in Wroclaw last year.

Also at the rally in Wroclaw with Fransen were two of Lukasik’s associates – priest Jacek Miedlar, sacked from his Catholic church for antisemitic rants, and Piotr Rybak, jailed in 2015 for burning an effigy of a Jew at an anti-Muslim march in the city.

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