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How many people really marched in Warsaw on Independence Day?
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On Wednesday, four days after a deadly shooting in Kraków, Poland's Independence March filled the streets of Warsaw. Police spokesman Andrzej Fijołek said the celebrations passed safely across the country, even as reports said flares burned along the route.
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The march's organising chief, Marcin Osowski, said the crowd was bigger than in past years and summed up the day: It was a true march of a million hearts.
“It was a true march of a million hearts.”
The organisers claim 700,000. Warsaw city hall counts 250,000. Onet put it between one hundred and twenty thousand and one hundred and sixty thousand, and no independent count has confirmed any of these figures so far.
- Organisers' estimate (Osowski)700000
- Warsaw city hall250000
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