A far-right lawmaker within the Polish parliament used a fireplace extinguisher on Tuesday and put out a candle on a menorah that was lit for the Jewish vacation Hanukkah.
All main political forces shortly denounced the incident carried out by Grzegorz Braun, and mentioned there can be no tolerance for antisemitic and xenophobic conduct within the Sejm, the Polish parliament.
The speaker of the parliament, Szymon Holownia, known as the act “absolutely scandalous” and excluded him from the day’s parliamentary proceedings. He mentioned he was reporting him to prosecutors.
“Poland is home of all religions,” Holownia mentioned.
TVN24 confirmed footage of Braun with a purple fireplace extinguisher placing out the hearth and inflicting smoke or haze to fill the world. The parliamentary proceedings have been briefly suspended.
New Prime Minister Donald Tusk known as the incident a shame and mentioned such a factor ought to by no means be repeated. Tusk was elected on Monday and gave his inaugural speech to parliament on Tuesday, pledging to demand that the Western world sustain its assist for Ukraine.
Braun, a pro-Russian member of the Confederation occasion, prior to now has falsely claimed that there’s a plot to show Poland right into a “Jewish state.”
After the incident, the candles have been lit once more.
