ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION) STORY: Right-wing and leftist demonstrators clashed with police in Warsaw on Friday (November 11) when Poland marked its Independence Day. Police used batons, tear gas and water cannons against right-wing marchers pelting them with stones, bottles and flares in a square in central Warsaw. According to Warsaw police, eight officers have been injured in the riots and over 100 demonstrators were arrested. Earlier in the day, leftist demonstrators sitting in the road and chanting “Fascism will not pass” attacked police who tried to prevent them from blocking one of the central streets. A coalition of leftists, anarchists and gay-rights activists calling themselves the “11th of November Movement” had publicized plans to block an Independence March by right-wing youth groups, All-Polish Youth and the National Radical Camp. Poland regained its independence in 1918 after 123 years of foreign occupation.
