No, Poland isn't importing 'fake asylum seekers'

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No, Poland isn't importing 'fake asylum seekers'  Social media users and even Polish politicians have falsely claimed that a video shows a large group of migrants being secretly brought into Kraków at night.  READ MORE : http://www.euronews.com/2025/04/28/no-poland-isnt-importing-fake-asylum-seekers  Subscribe to our channel. Euronews is available on Dailymotion in 12 languages

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00:00No, Poland isn't importing fake asylum seekers.

00:08Claims have emerged that fake asylum seekers are being shipped into Polish cities

00:13as part of a wider anti-migrant disinformation campaign.

00:17Posts like these onX have been circulating widely,

00:20showing videos of a group of people dragging suitcases along a street in Krakow at night.

00:25The captions published with the video read

00:27fake asylum seekers are dumped in Krakow, Poland at night when Poles are sleeping.

00:32They accuse some unnamed authorities of being sneaky and wanting to destroy Poland

00:37as well as the rest of Europe.

00:39To find out the truth we put a still from the video through a reverse image search

00:43which led us to a Facebook post published on 19 April 2025

00:47by a public lobbying movement for the residents of Old Krakow.

00:51It campaigns to reduce noise and the opening times of catering businesses in the city,

00:55among other issues, to keep it peaceful for the people who live there, according to its website.

01:00The Facebook post says that the video shows a so-called hotel crawl

01:03of about 100 people in the city at about 1.15am.

01:07It suggests that the tourists were making too much noise for that time of morning

01:11and that Krakow authorities should consider installing soundproof windows for residents,

01:16like a similar initiative in Vienna.

01:18The head of the lobbying group told Euroverify in a message that one of its members shot the video

01:23as an example of disruption in the city.

01:25He said that they don't know the nationality, gender or religion of the people in the video

01:29and that while they weren't particularly loud, their suitcases rolling along the street were.

01:35This is a disturbance of nighttime quiet, he added.

01:38We also reached out to the city of Krakow,

01:40which didn't respond to our request for comment at the time of recording this report.

01:44So, there's no evidence that the city is bringing in fake asylum seekers,

01:48and the video is being shared online with a false caption

01:51that is presumably designed to whip up hatred and fear of migrants.

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