Polish President Karol Nawrocki joined on Wednesday the country’s annual nationalist Independence Day march in Warsaw, which gathered hundreds of thousands of right-wing demonstrators.

The PAP news agency, citing Jarosław Misztal, director of the Warsaw Security Center, reported some 250,000 participants with no major incidents, while organizers put turnout at half a million or more. The march took place days after a gunman killed six people, including a British national, and injured 15 in Kraków’s main square on November 7. Ahead of the march, Prime Minister Donald Tusk appealed for restraint amid political divisions.