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Polish riots result in attempted attack on Russian embassy

Polish riots: Young men tried to scale the wall at the Russian embassy in the Polish capital Monday. Several people were arrested as an outcome of the Polish riots.

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Far-right protesters gather in front of the Russian embassy during the annual far-right march, which coincides with Poland's national Independence Day in Warsaw November 11, 2013. Polish riot police used rubber bullets on Monday to break up groups of masked far-right youths who threw firecrackers and set fire to parked cars during a nationalist march through the center of the capital.
  • By Associated Press

| Warsaw, Poland

Young Poles torched cars, threw stones at police and tried to climb the fence at the Russian Embassy after setting a guard's booth ablaze during a march Monday by nationalists marking Poland's Independence Day.

Police responded with tear gas and stun grenades, while detaining around a dozen people from a group of a few hundred mostly masked men who initially walked in the march.

Poland's Foreign Ministry spokesman Marcin Wojciechowski condemned the actions at the Russian Embassy in Warsaw in particular. "There is no justification for hooliganism," Wojciechowski wrote on Twitter.

Police spokesman Mariusz Sokolowski said five police officers and some other people were hospitalized with injuries they sustained during the clashes.

Thousands of nationalists marched through downtown Warsaw chanting against the government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk. Their Independence Day march has turned violent before, prompting many residents to call on city officials to ban it.

Warsaw authorities, who initially allowed Monday's march, declared it illegal after the violence, but that did not stop the marchers.

Elsewhere in the capital and country, many Poles held peaceful events in memory of the country's regaining sovereignty in 1918 as a result of World War I.

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