The shelter on Rajska Street along the Bobrowa Trail was built, like the Bobrowa Trail itself, partly with EU funding in 2017. The site served people picnicking by the Bóbr River well until the flood. After the 2024 flood, the trail and its small-scale infrastructure were destroyed. The Bobrowa Trail is managed and maintained by the Municipal Sports and Recreation Centre.
– A place intended to serve people has unfortunately been neglected – the reader wrote. – Everything is overgrown with moss, covered in writing or carved into. I understand that people can hold parties here, because I have spent time here myself more than once, but there is no need to destroy it immediately. The city should do something about it and tidy it up – the reader added.
Who is destroying the shelter? Neo-fascists from Bolesławiec?
The inscription “F**k ANTIFA” can be seen on the bench backrest, which may point to the people destroying the shelter. They are people who oppose an organisation that fights fascism.
The anti-fascist movement has its roots in Italy, where the organisation Arditi del Popolo played a pioneering role, using violence in its fight against fascists. As Nazism developed in Germany and Nazi paramilitary groups emerged, similar initiatives appeared on the left. Social democrats created the Iron Front, communists the Antifascist Action—Antifa, and anarchists the Black Front. The name Antifa was also referenced by the Committee of Anti-Fascist Resistance Fighters, which brought together German veterans.
After World War II, Marxist radicals attempted to continue the Antifa ethos, but the movement’s genuine revival came in the 1980s and 1990s, through anarchising countercultural movements. These movements shaped the stereotypical image of the contemporary militant anti-fascist, contributing to its resurgence and evolution.