MEP Arkadiusz Mularczyk, the author of the report on war reparations, is outraged by the way police treated activists from the Border Defence Movement (ROG) in Berlin. “This is an absolute scandal and a blatant example of racism and discrimination against Polish citizens. I cannot imagine German police treating, for example, a Jewish delegation visiting the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin similarly,” the Polish Member of the European Parliament said bluntly.
“This is an absolute scandal and a blatant example of racism and discrimination against Polish citizens. I cannot imagine German police treating, for example, a Jewish delegation visiting the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin similarly. So why are Poles carrying a cross in Berlin treated in this manner?” MEP Arkadiusz Mularczyk said angrily after learning of the brutal intervention by German police against activists from the Border Defence Movement (ROG).
On the anniversary of the erection of the memorial, ROG activists gathered at the “memorial boulder” to honour the memory of Polish victims of German aggression against Poland in the years 1939-1945.
“This is precisely an example of German racism and discrimination against Poles. After all, someone in the German police authorised such an intervention. Perhaps this is also a form of German retaliation for the fact that the Border Defence Movement, whose members were attacked, has for weeks repeatedly been exposing German officers who are dumping migrants from Germany into Poland,”
Mularczyk noted.
A test for Polish-German relations
The MEP believes that the incident has several dimensions and that “the international aspect certainly cannot be left unaddressed.”
“This event must be met with a firm response from the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The German ambassador should be summoned for an explanation, but the Polish ambassador or chargé d’affaires in Berlin should also lodge a protest with the German Foreign Ministry. Otherwise, such situations will happen again. This will be a real test for our relations,”
said the author of the widely discussed report on Poland’s wartime losses.
Mularczyk, who under the Law and Justice government was responsible for coordinating talks on German reparations for the losses Poland suffered as a result of the 1939 aggression, sees many more grim contexts behind the situation.
“Apart from racism and discrimination against Poles, we also have here an example of an attack on the historical memory of Polish victims of the Second World War. After all, this unfortunate stone, the so-called monument in Berlin, was meant to commemorate Polish victims. This is therefore a place where people have the right to come, lay flowers, and commemorate them with a cross or other religious symbols, which are inseparable elements of Polish history, tradition and morality,”
the former deputy minister stated.
The West’s double standards
“This brutal attack on demonstrators from Poland showed that Poland and Germany are two different worlds and two different mentalities, with the German one being a mentality of double standards. Officially, Germany declares its support for the rule of law and human rights, while unofficially people are treated there in precisely the way German police treated Poles today,” the MEP said.
He also noted that, “above all, this is an attack on a religious symbol.” The Polish politician very sharply and directly assessed the policy of Western European countries when it comes to respect for Christians and their faith.
“Somehow, we do not see similar attacks by German police on mosques or other symbols of Islam, or on symbols of the Jewish religion. Strangely enough, the authorities in Berlin had no problem attacking the cross, which is a symbol of Christianity. This is a complete reversal of concepts and a manifestation of unhealthy political correctness, which protects Jews, protects Muslims, but does not protect Christians and white inhabitants of Europe. Today, multiculturalism as understood by the West evidently means state aggression against whites and Christians, and complete submission above all to Muslims. In the context of the memory of the victims of the Germans from the time of the Second World War, it is all the more shocking that the descendants of the victims of World War II can be treated in this way,”
Mularczyk stated.