More than a month ago, the Ceramic Parade took place to mark the start of the Ceramics Festival. Groups from the istotne.pl portal and the boleslawianie.eu association took part in the parade, including several people carrying rainbow flags. Soldiers, people associated with BKS Bolesławiec, Damian Sawczak’s Football Academy and FC Bolesławiec fans were also supposed to walk behind us, among others.

The soldiers, athletes from BKS Bolesławiec and people from Football Academy had no problem with the rainbow flags. However, FC Bolesławiec fans decided not to take part in the parade. Instead, they stood by the roundabout on Asnyka Street, where they verbally abused the parade participants using vulgar language. One woman was beaten by a hooligan.

The police are investigating the insults, disruption of the parade and assault. Substantial evidence has been collected.

To this day, city mayor Piotr Roman has not condemned the hooligans’ behavior. Instead, he condemned the people carrying LGBT flags. He spoke about ideology. Today, anonymous fans decided to support the mayor’s narrative. They introduced themselves as “Kibice FcBC”. They wrote a letter to the festival organizer. They are trying to clear their name and repeat what Piotr Roman’s entourage says.

Here are three lies told by the hooligans and our response:

  1. Quote: Minor provocations by a group associated with the istotne.pl portal, already an hour before the event began (i.e. blending into our group with rainbow elements, waiting for a reaction and filming it from a distance, verbal taunts), caused confusion and embarrassment among us.
    Response: It was the other way around. After seeing a rainbow flag, one of the hooligans began shouting, “Hide that rag!” and “F*** off.” When we started recording, he was already warning us without vulgar language, saying, “You’ll leave here!” We responded by notifying the municipal police. The officers spoke with the fan.
  2. Quote: As for the information about an assault on this group, we will not comment, because at the time it allegedly occurred, as stated above, we were not an organized group.
    Response: We are attaching videos at the end of the text, after which everyone can judge whether this was an organized group or individual spectators.
  3. Quote: We did not attack anyone jointly and in concert.
    Response: This sounds like an attempt at legal protection, because acting jointly and in concert is viewed more seriously by a court. Here too, we recommend watching the videos to judge whether everyone was shouting something different or whether they acted jointly and in concert.

The hooligans’ letter was published on the same day that we published an open letter to Mayor Piotr Roman and information that the Bolesławiec City Council had not considered the complaint about the lack of security for the Ceramic Parade.

The hooligans stood shoulder to shoulder with Mayor Piotr Roman and now share a common narrative.