Hues of red and yellow will mark the Chinese New Year while Polish Independence Day will see the city hall turned red and white.

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The incident bore similarities with the daubing of a Mark Rothko mural in London's Tate Modern gallery last October, for which Polish national Wlodzimierz Umaniec, 26, was subsequently jailed.

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