“Everyone saw it: kicking defenceless people in the face, people who only wanted to put up a cross, is unacceptable conduct that should have no place in the international arena. Meanwhile, the Polish authorities are mocking the incident, and this cannot be accepted. As a parliamentary group, we will file a notification in this case concerning the commission of a crime, abuse of power and assault,” Marcin Warchoł, a Law and Justice MP and former justice minister, said today on TV Republika.
On Tuesday, members of the Border Defence Movement (ROG) arrived in Berlin at the site of a boulder placed near the German parliament to commemorate Polish victims of the Second World War. They wanted to place a symbolic cross there, but German police did not allow it. A brutal attack on the assembled Poles followed. Immediately after singing Rota, members of the Border Defence Movement (ROG) moved with the cross towards the memorial site for the victims of the Germans during the Second World War. At that point, German police attacked the demonstrators. Officers began kicking and punching them. Some members of the Border Defence Movement were taken to hospital.
So far, there has been no firm response from Polish state authorities to the incident.
“If we had a Polish prime minister, the ambassador would already have had to give a very detailed explanation for such events today. This matter would be raised at the international level, and the Polish prosecutor’s office would launch an investigation, as Article 110 §1 of the Penal Code permits this. Instead, we have a Berlin-minded EU man who is busy cultivating his own haters (…) When Poles are attacked abroad, there is such a thing as the national interest, and that is crucial,”
former justice minister Marcin Warchoł said on TV Republika.
Article 110 §1 of the Polish Penal Code states: “Polish criminal law shall apply to a foreign national who has committed a prohibited act abroad directed against the interests of the Republic of Poland, a Polish citizen, a Polish legal person, or a Polish organisational unit without legal personality, as well as to a foreign national who has committed a terrorist offence abroad.”
“Everyone saw it: kicking defenceless people in the face, people who only wanted to put up a cross, is unacceptable conduct that should have no place in the international arena. Meanwhile, the Polish authorities are mocking the incident, and this cannot be accepted. As a parliamentary group, we will file a notification in this case concerning the commission of a crime, abuse of power and assault. This was brutal conduct, an abuse of force and authority against defenceless people,”
Warchoł added.