Although Omolo has experienced racism since the time of Poland’s previous government — Donald Tusk’s Civic Platform — he believes that the situation has become worse for all non-Poles since the Law and Justice (PiS) party was elected to power in 2015.

“This administration are trying to create bottlenecks, especially for the civil society. Immediately after getting into power, they disbanded the Commission for Discrimination, they disbanded the Department of Hate Crime Control under the Ministry of Interior, they disbanded the Department for Women’s Rights, they moved it to trafficking. They also created a special unit for monitoring the work of civil society and NGOs. That’s one of the reasons why these issues are mushrooming and increasing dramatically — there’s no proper channel to provide assistance.”