US EditionPolish prosecutors investigate lawmaker for comments on Auschwitz
POLAND, JUL 10 – Grzegorz Braun faces seven sets of charges including Holocaust denial, antisemitic remarks, and vandalism after denying Auschwitz gas chambers and making inflammatory statements during his presidential campaign.
- Polish prosecutors have launched an investigation into far-right leader Grzegorz Braun for denying the existence of gas chambers at Auschwitz and accusing Jews of ritual murder of Christians.
- Denial of Nazi crimes is an offence in Poland that carries a jail sentence of up to three years.
- Piotr CywiDski, director of the Auschwitz Museum, condemned Braun's comments as a conscious lie, an act of ideological, antisemitic hatred, and a violation of the law.
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Polish prosecutors investigate far-right lawmaker for comments on Auschwitz
Polish prosecutors have launched a preliminary investigation after a far-right lawmaker described the gas chambers at the Auschwitz death camp as a “fake.”
Polish far-right leader declares Auschwitz gas chambers to be "fake"
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MP Grzegorz Brown said in an interview on a national radio program: "Such a thing as Auschwitz with gas chambers is unfortunately a fake." • Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk called Brown's words "a disgrace," adding: "We must do everything so that no one in the world associates Poland with such people."
"Mr. Grzegorz Braun's words are evil and breed Evil. We must not remain silent about them and must not disregard them," emphasizes Archbishop Adrian Galbas. The Metropolitan of Warsaw responded in this way to the words of MEP Grzegorz Braun, who in yesterday's interview on Radio Wnet said that "the gas chambers in Auschwitz are fake." "Mr. Grzegorz Braun's words are evil and breed Evil." The article by Archbishop Galbas: Grzegorz Braun's words a…
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