The statements have emerged that “false asylum seekers” are shipped to Polish cities, as part of a wider anti-migrant disinformation campaign.
Messages like these on X circulate largely, showing videos from a group of people dragging suitcases along a street in Krakow at night.
The legends published with the video read: “False asylum seekers are thrown in Krakow, Poland, at night, when the posts sleep.”
They accuse certain anonymous authorities of being “sly” and of wanting to destroy Poland, as well as the rest of Europe.
We put a motionless from the video through an inverse image search, which led us to a Facebook publication Posted on April 19, 2025 by a public lobbying movement for residents of Old Craców.
It campaigns to reduce the noise and opening hours of city catering businesses, among other things, to keep it peaceful for people who live there, According to his website.
The Facebook post indicates that the video shows a so-called “hotel ramp” of around 100 people in the city around 1:15.
This suggests that tourists made too much noise for this morning period and that the authorities of Krakow should consider installing soundproofed windows for residents, such as an initiative similar to Vienna.
The leader of the lobbying group told Eurovenife in a message that one of his members had shot the video as an example of “disturbance” in the city.
He said that they did not know the nationality, sex or religion of people in the video, and that, although they were not particularly noisy, their suitcases which rolled along the street were.
“It is a disturbance of night calm,” he added.
Right -wing politicians in the center
The thick video is particularly worrying because even Polish politicians seem to have shared it with the same false claims to advance their program.
Eurovenife contacted the office of Aleksander Miszalski, the mayor of Krakow, who said he was aware of the video and shared a letter that Miszalski had written to policeman Anna Krupka.
The letter asks Krupka, the law and the justice of the right -wing populist party, to apologize for an article on social networks on April 22 during which she shared the video and accused Krakow of having brought migrants to the city “under the cover of the night”. The position quickly took ground among the far -right groups.
“I officially ask that you are launching public apology to spread the disinformation and the construction of a deceptive story concerning migration policy,” said the mayor in his letter, noting that the simple fact of deleting the position is “completely inadequate”.
ADVERTISEMENT“The video presented in the post, which shows foreign tourists on the way to their hotels along the street łobzowska, has been deliberately withdrawn from its context and manipulated to encourage fear among residents of Krakow,” he continued.
“Such a deplorable act is completely incompatible with the responsibilities and ethical standards expected from a member of the Parliament of the Republic of Poland,” added Miszalski. “By exploiting the public trust that suits you, you deliberately feed the division, encouraging hostility and involving the propagation of raw propaganda designed only to guarantee a transient political advantage.”
It seems that Krupka has deleted the video from his social networks, although screenshots still exist, but Eurovenife could not find any explicit public excuse.
Miszalski has since referred the case to the parliamentary ethics committee due to Krupka's failure to apologize.
ADVERTISEMENT“Thousands of people have seen this manipulation which attacked the image of Krakow,” said the mayor in an article on X. “I called Anna Krupka for publicly apologizing. However, she does not think she did something bad …”
Since the publication of the video, Krupka has appeared on Polish television and said that she had not published it herself; It is rather “the person who directs (his) Facebook account”, according to national reports.
Krupka said she said to the social media director to delete the position once she had done what had happened.
Other reports indicate that Krupka said she considered the question closed after deleting the video. She did not respond to the request for Euroverify comments.
ADVERTISEMENTOverall, there is no evidence that Krakow brings “false asylum seekers”, and the video is shared online with a false legend which is probably designed to prepare the hatred and fear of migrants.
