Polish girls 'too pretty'

2007-03-30 15:52

Warsaw - Pretty Polish girls have become targets of jealousy and bullying by British schoolgirls, while British schoolboys keen to win a Polish girlfriend have picked fist-fights with their Polish rivals, Poland's Zycie Warszawy daily reported on Friday.

Most of the Polish teens arrived in Great Britain as part of the massive wave of migrants following Poland's 2004 entry into the European Union.

Tall, thin and a blue-eyed blonde, Magda Kwiatkowska turned the heads of local boys as soon as she showed up at a high school in London's Acton district.

"It began two years ago with English girls making ironic comments, finger pointing and pushing her around," Kwiatkowska's mother told Zycie Warszawy.

As the threats became more severe, Madga developed anaemia, depression, ulcers and Crone's Disease - an illness of the digestive system.

"My daughter was terrorised by other girls who the boys no longer paid attention to," says Kwiatkowska's father. "She begged me to pick her up on time after school and was afraid to walk around town alone."

At first he found it hard to believe his daughter's good looks were at the root of her woes. But even after she transferred to another school, Magda was bullied again by British schoolgirls jealous of her good looks and the attention she received from boys.

Eventually the mean-spirited attacks forced Magda's return to Poland, where she is attending school and seeing a therapist to overcome the trauma of bullying.

Zycie Warszawy also reports that fights over Polish girls have broken out between gangs of British and Polish teenage boys in Lincoln, near Nottingham. - Sapa-dpa