Poland: Forget it, We’re not Accepting any “Refugees”

“For those who want to blame the attacks on Paris on refugees, you might want to get your facts straight”, wrote Aaron Zelin, an analyst of jihad, in an online commentary about the 12 outbursts.

Poland’s new European Affairs Minister Konrad Szymanski said on Saturday Warsaw “no longer considered an EU plan to redistribute refugees across Europe as a political possibility in light of the Paris attacks that left at least 129 people dead”, according to AFP.

His words come after as yet unverified reports that one of the Paris gunmen had posed as a refugee to gain entry to Europe via the Greek island of Leros.

He is one of a group of central European government leaders, including nationalist Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who accuse German Chancellor Angela Merkel of having triggered a stampede of migrants by opening German doors to Syrian refugees. “If they’ve done anything they’ve encouraged us today to do even harder work to make progress and to help resolve the crises that we face”, USA secretary of state John Kerry said Saturday at a second round of peace talks in Vienna.

Governors of Two U.S. states – Alabama and MI — say they will block or suspend a program to resettle Syrian refugees within their borders, citing security concerns after Friday’s wave of deadly assaults in Paris.

“This attack will increase public and political polarization over the issue of refugees, convincing those who are already prejudiced that their fears are well-grounded”, Fomina said.

They called Friday’s events “an attack against us all”.

Recalling that Hungary been criticized as inhumane for building fences on its borders to keep migrants out, Orban said: “But the question is: What is more humane?”

“Until these are ended, we need to help them survive and be sheltered in our country”, said the 72-year-old. “I think that it will be necessary to close the Schengen border”.

Poland’s incoming Prime Minister Beata Szydlo lit a candle at the French Institute in the southern city of Kracow. He and other government members support the idea of sending humanitarian aid to the Syrian refugees in Turkey, Jordan and Lebanon – but not letting them into Europe.

Last month, Kaczynski warned migrants could spread diseases such as cholera, dysentery and “all sorts of parasites” which could “endanger local populations”.

The carnage in the French capital, directly linked to the conflicts in Syria and Iraq, seemed bound to further complicate the European Union’s task in sharing out hundreds of thousands of migrants who have entered the bloc this year, fleeing war and poverty.

Szymanski has been nominated as a minister in Poland’s new conservative government to be sworn in on Monday.