Polish member who disrupts a Jewish celebration – loses immunity

The Polish Parliament took the decision to lift Brown's immunity from prosecution on Wednesday. The Polish government, the liberal Citizens' Coalition, and the largest opposition party, the right-wing nationalist Law and Justice Party, voted in favor of the proposal.

– There is no reason to protect him with immunity. “We know what he did and it is unacceptable,” MP Agnieszka Pomaska ​​told Reuters.

The event is that The items occurred in December coinciding with the Polish Parliament's annual Hanukkah celebration. When the candles on the hanuki — an eight-armed Jewish menorah — were lit — Grzegorz Brown grabbed a fire extinguisher, walked over to the menorah and extinguished the candles.

Brown belongs to the far-right Confederation Party. Regarding the incident, he described Hanukkah as a “satanic” holiday, before being expelled from Parliament. His behavior has been condemned from several political quarters, including by his own party.

When Warsaw District Prosecutor Mariusz Dubowski presented the criminal charges to parliament on Wednesday, he said Brown was suspected of vandalism and desecration of religious sites, Reuters reported.

In addition to the incident that occurred in Parliament Gregors Braun is suspected of committing six other crimes, all said to have been committed in 2022 and 2023. These include, among others, the fact that he is suspected of defaming former Health Minister Lukács Szumowski and destroying a Holocaust survivor. Microphone during lectures and reports Pop.

Grzegorz Braun disputes these doubts.

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