Grzegorz Braun | |
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.jpg) Official portrait, 2024 | |
| Member of the European Parliament forLesser Poland and Świętokrzyskie | |
| Assumed office 16 July 2024 | |
| Parliamentary group | Non-Inscrits |
| Member of theSejm | |
| In office 12 November 2019 – 15 July 2024 | |
| Constituency | No. 23 (Rzeszów) |
| Chairman of theConfederation of the Polish Crown | |
| Assumed office 7 September 2019 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Grzegorz Michał Braun[1] (1967-03-11)11 March 1967 (age 58)[2] Toruń, then in thePolish People's Republic |
| Political party | Confederation of the Polish Crown |
| Other political affiliations | Confederation Liberty and Independence (until 2025) |
| Spouse | Aleksandra Braun |
| Children | 3[3] |
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Grzegorz Michał Braun[a] (born 11 March 1967) is a Polish politician and filmmaker who has served as a member of theSejm forRzeszów[b] from 2019 to 2024 and amember of the European Parliament (MEP) forLesser Poland and Świętokrzyskie since 2024.[4] He has been the chairman of theConfederation of the Polish Crown (abbreviated in Polish as KKP) since 2019.[5]
Braun's political career began when he announced his candidacy in the2015 presidential election. He formed the campaign committee "God Bless You!", but received a minimal percentage of the vote. His political journey continued with his participation in discussions on European andRussian relations and his candidacies in various elections including for the mayoral office ofGdańsk and theEuropean Parliament. Despite electoral setbacks, he was elected to the Sejm at the2019 parliamentary election. He was re-elected at the2023 parliamentary election. Braun's tenure in politics has been marked by controversy, including inflammatory remarks during theCOVID-19 pandemic and endorsements of independent nuclear capabilities for Poland.
Braun has broadly been described asfar-right,[6] and his views asanti-American,[7]anti-Ukrainian,[8][9]antisemitic,[10]anti-Zionist,[11]anti-LGBTQ,[12] and as aligning withTraditionalist Catholicism andPolish nationalism.[13] His tenure in the Sejm was characterised by numerous antisemitic incidents. In 2023 he invaded aHolocaust lecture, destroyed equipment and made derogatory comments aboutJews. Later that year he extinguished aHanukkah menorah in the Sejm using a fire extinguisher, leading to his exclusion from the session.[14] In May 2025 the European Parliament lifted his immunity. In July 2025 he was charged with seven criminal offences stemming from multiple incidents occurring between 2022 and 2023, including assault.[15] Later that month, Braun publiclydenied that the Nazisused gas chambers atAuschwitz concentration camp during theSecond World War.[16]
Grzegorz Michał Braun was born inToruń in thePolish People's Republic on 11 March 1967.[17] He is the son ofKazimierz Braun, a theatre-director and writer. According to Braun's sister Monika Braun, their family immigrated to what is nowLviv, Ukraine, from Austria in the 18th century. Kazimierz Braun denies that the family has any Jewish heritage.[18] His uncle, Juliusz Braun, was president ofTelewizja Polska and was chief of theNational Broadcasting Council.[19]
He graduated from theUniversity of Wrocław in 1987, and completed postgraduate studies at theKrzysztof Kieślowski Faculty of Radio and Television at theUniversity of Silesia inKatowice in 1993. From 1987 onwards he co-organised activities of theOrange Alternative, for which he was oppressed by the communist government of thePolish People's Republic. In 1988 and 1989, he participated in student protests at the University of Wrocław. He was also active in the Polish-Czech-Slovak Solidarity.[17]
He was a member of theeditorial board of theFronda [pl] magazine from 1990 to 1994.[20] Later, he also was a journalist for, inter alia, the Option Right[21] andPolskie Radio Wrocław. He was involved with the Polish Monarchists Organisation (Polish:Organizacja Monarchistów Polskich),[22] for which he contributed written works and lectures. He is involved with "Wake-up Call" ("Pobudka"),[23] an organisation that he has founded[24] to strengthen the self-sustainability of faith communities,[citation needed] and the internet showSumienie Narodu.[25]
In 2005 Braun released a documentary film about the alleged collaboration betweenSolidarity-leader and later President of PolandLech Wałęsa and theMinistry of Public Security (SB), thesecret police of thePolish People's Republic. Wałęsa filed a lawsuit against Braun, and Braun filed a countersuit fordefamation. A hearing was held, and the court dismissed both claims.[26][27]
In 2012, Braun called for the execution byfiring squad of journalists fromGazeta Wyborcza andTVN,[28] which led to an official investigation.[29] In 2023 theProsecutor's Office dismissed the case.[30]
In, 2015 he formed his own campaign committee, God Bless You! (Szczęść Boże!),[31] and received 13,113 votes amounting to 0.09 per cent of the total cast.[32]
In January 2019 Braun announced his candidacy for the mayoral office ofGdańsk. The election was called after the murder of MayorPaweł Adamowicz. Braun's candidacy was endorsed byJanusz Korwin-Mikke and theNational Movement. On 4 March 2019 it was determined that Braun received 11.86 per cent of votes and thus conceded to the winner,Aleksandra Dulkiewicz, who received 82.22 per cent of the votes.[33]
In the2019 European Parliament election in Poland Braun was the leading candidate for theConfederation Liberty and Independence in the9th constituency encompassing the territory of theSubcarpathian Voivodeship. Although his list received 5.89 per cent of the vote, the best result for Confederation in the country, the coalition failed to reach the 5 per cent threshold nationwide and so he did not pick up the seat.[34]
In the2019 Polish parliamentary election Braun was the leading candidate for the Confederation Liberty and Independence in the Rzeszów Constituency, located in the Podkarpackie Voivodeship. He built on his success from the last election, and his list received 8.25 per cent of the vote, which was again the best result for the Confederation nationwide. This time Braun picked up the seat, as did 10 other candidates from the Confederation.[35]
He was a candidate in the2020 Confederation presidential primary. He made it into the final round of voting where he lost toKrzysztof Bosak. He immediately endorsed Bosak and said he would campaign for him.[36]
On 27 January 2023 Braun destroyed a Christmas tree decorated with baubles themed with Ukrainian, EU andLGBTQ pride flags located in the building of the Kraków District Court. He said that he had staged a "parliamentary intervention".[37][38][39]
Braun was elected to the European Parliament in the2024 European Parliament election.[40]
On 12 October, Braun stated that, "thePolish Army should not lift a finger in the defence of a small, depopulated, nasty,anti-Polish,Bismarck,Anglo-Saxon andJewish creature, that is modernLithuania".[41]
On 15 January 2025, Braun announced he would run forPresident of Poland in theupcoming election, confirming previous speculations.[42] He declared his intent despite the fact that theConfederation Liberty and Independence (KWiN) leadership had designatedSławomir Mentzen as its presidential candidate back in August 2024.[43][44] As a result Braun was expelled from the party on 17 January.[45]Janusz Korwin-Mikke, founder and former member of the KWiN, has expressed support for Braun's candidacy.[46]
According to a report by the"Never Again" Association, Braun has long supportedJanusz Waluś, the murderer of theSouth African Communist Party leaderChris Hani, undertaking parliamentary interventions to obtain his release from life imprisonment and promoting fundraisers for him. He also defended Waluś's crime, stating, among other things, "In my world, shooting communist party secretaries can be a noble act, because committed out of necessity."[47][48]
On 16 April 2025 Braun, along with MPRoman Fritz and a group of activists, attempted acitizen's arrest of agynaecologist working at a hospital inOleśnica:[49] Braun and his group prevented the gynaecologist from leaving her office, Braun called her a "serial murderer", and pushed her. The police were called, but they did not arrest Braun or his group.[50][51] The doctor had previously legally aborted a 37-week-old foetus since its severe congenital bone fragility would have caused a significant risk to the mother; it also had a very high chance of being a stillbirth. After the incident, the doctor was harassed anddoxxed on social media and the hospital was sentbomb threats.[52] Braun's sister condemned his actions in an article for the newspaperTygodnik Powszechny, and said that "the line has been crossed".[53]
As at April 2025, Braun waspolling between 1% and 4% in the 2025 Polish presidential election.[citation needed] According to a survey conducted by Opinia24 between 6 and 7 May forFakty TVN, 4% of 1000 respondents said that they would vote for Braun.[54] In a survey conducted by the Pollster Research Institute (Polish:Instytut Badań Pollster) forSuper Express between 7 and 8 May 2025, out of 1,077 respondents, 5.3% responded that they would vote for Braun if the presidential election were held that Sunday, 11 May 2025.[55]
On 6 May 2025 the European Parliament voted in favour of removing Braun's EU-level immunity from prosecution;[56][57] the Polish prosecutor's office had requested it a day before.[58]
Braun's 2025 presidential campaign had the endorsement of the formerSelf-Defence of the Republic of Poland candidateAldona Skirgiełło,PolExit,Real Europe Movement andNational Rebirth of Poland.[59][60][61][62]
On the first round of voting on 18 May 2025, Braun placed fourth and won 6.3% of the vote.[63][64]
Braun is aTraditionalist Catholic.[65] He begins each of his speeches with the words "God bless you".[66] He is fiercely critical ofProtestantism in Poland and has often debated Protestants in public.[13] Braun is amonarchist and is a critic ofdemocracy.[67][68][69] He advocates for the formal recognition ofJesus as the king of Poland.[70]
Braun has criticized foreign influence in Poland, calling it a "Russo-German condominium under a Jewish-American trusteeship".[71] He has called thePOLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews a "propaganda-disinformation centre".[72]
Braun repeatedly criticized theLaw and Justice party, calling their MPs "the followers ofGog and Magog, destroyers of Polish tradition and Latin civilization" and "a reenactment group ofSanation".[73][74]
Braun calls forPoland to independently maintain and operate nuclear weapons.[75]
Braun praisedvigilante groups, organized byfootball hooligans, that assaulted and harassed ethnic minorities inPrzemyśl.[76][77] One group assaulted three Indians in Przemyśl with baseball bats and bottles, leaving one hospitalised. The police denied reports of a spike in crime caused by migrants from Ukraine.[78]
Braun has been described aspro-Russian,[79] and was interviewed by Russian-state owned news agencySputnik in 2019.[80] He was praised by the Russian media for his stances on Ukraine since the beginning of the2022 invasion.[81]
In a 2018 article titled "Ukrainian spectres and delusions" (Polish:Ukraińskie upiory i urojenia), Braun wrote, "Ukraine is a fiction. And it is a dangerous fiction. The fiction of an independent state as a civilized partner and the fiction of a sovereign nation with which we can finally normalise neighbourly relations."[82]
On 24 February 2022, Braun posted atweet demanding Poland to not open its borders to Ukrainian refugees.[83] He was the only MP who voted against a resolution in the Sejm condemning the invasion of Ukraine and calling uponNATO and the European Union to provide support to Ukraine.[84] He was interviewed by Sputnik again less than a month after the invasion, in which he said that Russia is not the sole instigator of theRusso-Ukrainian War and Ukrainians would be held accountable for their "banderism".[82]
Braun opposes Polish aid to Ukrainian refugees. He launched a campaign titled "Stop theUkrainization of Poland", which was intended to dissuade the public from supporting the refugees by "exaggerating the potential cultural impact of absorbing so many Ukrainians and emphasizing the historical differences between the two nations".[85] He demanded that the government remove the right of Ukrainian citizens to apply for a temporary residency permit and end further Ukrainian immigration to prevent a major shift in Poland's demographics.[86] He claimed that his party was actively fighting against the "banderization" and "Ukrainization" of Poland by trying to prevent the influx of Ukrainian refugees.[81] Paulina Nodzyńska, writing forGazeta Wyborcza, said that Braun was at the "forefront" ofUkrainophobic internet propaganda.[87]
On 25 June 2022, Braun took part in a pro-Russian rally; he addressed his speech toVolodymyr Zelenskyy andJoe Biden, proclaiming "President Joe Biden, if you still trust God, let your private interest and the interest of American corporations, that sell weapons to Ukraine, along with entire America, kneel in humility in front of God's almightiness(...)".[88] During a debate in theEuropean Parliament (EP), Braun stated that themilitary aid to Ukraine is not helping the Ukrainian people, but only prolonging the war, after which his microphone was cut off.[89] He shouted "thieves, thieves!" during a vote on using frozen Russian assets to assist Ukraine financially.[90] In the Sejm, Braun blamed Ukraine for the war and claimed that it was caused by a discriminatory language law towards ethnic Russians.[91]
On 4 June 2024, Braun and a group of supporters pulled down theUkrainian flag atopKościuszko Mound.[92][93] During a 2025 rally, a supporter of Braun took down a Ukrainian flag hanging from theBiała Podlaska town hall and replaced it with a Polish flag, after which Braun thanked him for his actions and shook his hand. Braun later took responsibility for the incident and said that the Ukrainian flag would be delivered to the closest Ukrainian consulate.[94][95]
After the2025 Russian drone incursion into Poland, Braun andJanusz Korwin-Mikke claimed that it was staged by the Polish government as part of a conspiracy to involve the country in the Russo-Ukrainian War. They said that they had filed a claim to prosecutors of a suspected crime. Prime ministerDonald Tusk and presidentKarol Nawrocki accused them of spreadingRussian disinformation, and foreign ministerRadosław Sikorski accused them of being "Russian lackeys".[96][97]
On 6 May 2025, Braun travelled to theMinistry of Industry inKatowice with Roman Fritz and a group of supporters, where they demanded to meet with MinisterMarzena Czarnecka. After being told that she was attending a meeting in Warsaw, they asked to see the acting minister, Kinga Okrzesik-Faruga, and said that they were staging a "parliamentary intervention". They posed questions to Okrzesik-Faruga regarding her role in the ministry and the liquidation of coal mines, which she said she would answer in writing.[98]
While leaving the building, Braun stole aflag of Europe from the lobby of the building after a short argument with ministry employees, trampled upon the flag, drove with it to theWujek mine, wiped his shoes with it, and burnt it under the monument to the miners killed there.[99][100] He posted a recording of the flag burning onTwitter with the caption "The miners of the 'Wujek' mine and others died at the hands of the Soviet authorities not so that a Euro-Soviet regime would be established on Polish soil today."[101]
On 7 October 2024, during a debate in the European Parliament on the first anniversary of theOctober 7 attacks that initiated theGaza war, Braun called for Israel to be designated a terrorist state, describingBenjamin Netanyahu and his government as the "largest and most criminal terrorist organisation".[11] Braun disrupted a moment of silence held during the European Parliament's sitting in commemoration of the 2025International Holocaust Remembrance Day by shouting "Let’s pray for the victims of the Jewishgenocide in Gaza."[102] He repeated the sentence again,[103] thanked the audience for "praying for the victims of the Jewish genocide in Gaza",[104] and was subsequently excluded from the meeting and escorted out.[105][106]
Braun later claimed on social media that he did not "disrupt" the proceeding, but was merely "supplement[ing]" it, saying, "I shared the comment that apparently all victims are equal, but some are more equal than others".[107][108] Polish MEPŁukasz Kohut condemned Braun's actions, calling him a "disgusting creature", and Dutch MEPBert-Jan Ruissen said that Braun was antisemitic and called upon the European Parliament to impose the "highest possible sanction". TheEuropean Jewish Congress said that the incident was a "vile display of antisemitism in the heart of European democracy."[109]
Braun has been quoted accusing Jews of being "the enemies of Poland" and alleging their desire to undertake a "hostile takeover" of Polish territory and to place ethnic Poles in reservations, an allegory forIndian reservations.[110][111][112] He has also claimed there exists a plan to turn Poland into a "Jewish state",[113] and delivered a speech to his supporters in which he said "us non-Jews have only one choice: to serve like animals, like cattle…This is a teaching spread for 2,000 years [by Jews], since the manger and the cross of Christ were rejected ... Do you want a future for your children that is shared by children inGaza today? Do you want such a fate for Polish children? A fate of slaves, subhumans, at the mercy of the JewishÜbermensch?"[114]
Braun disrupted a lecture on the Holocaust by the historianJan Grabowski at theGerman Historical Institute in Warsaw by invading the room and destroying the microphone and speakers. He told the director of the institute, Milos Reznik, that "[a] German in Warsaw is not going to tell me I shouldn't damage something. Get out of Warsaw, now!" after he was criticized by him for destroying the institute's property. Braun refused to leave when instructed to do so by police, using hisimmunity from prosecution as a member of European Parliament.[115]
Braun's actions and statements have led to criticism from within his own party.Sławomir Mentzen, one of the leaders of the Confederation party, condemned Braun's actions, stating his intent to take further steps in addressing the situation.[110] Additionally, CardinalGrzegorz Ryś, Archbishop of Łódź, said, "I am ashamed and I apologise to the whole Jewish community in Poland" following the incident.[116] Braun has denied having racist motives and described his actions as a response to what he perceives as "Satanic,Talmudist triumphalism" ofJewish holidays.[110]
On 12 December 2023, during the first session of the 10th term of the Sejm, Braun put out aHanukkah menorah with afire extinguisher, saying that "The people participating in theSatanic cult should be ashamed".[117][118] Security guards ordered the area to be evacuated because of the resultant white cloud ofaerosol.[119] A woman was taken to a hospital due to respiratory issues caused by the resultant fumes.[120] He was excluded from the ongoing session of the Sejm, and punished by having his parliamentary allowance withheld for six months.[121] The speaker of the Sejm,Szymon Hołownia, announced that a criminal complaint would be filed with prosecutors.[119][122] Hołownia also sent an inquiry to a police commissioner to verify whether Braun has a firearm permit, as he received information from theMarshal Guard that Braun asked in the past if he can deposit a personal firearm in Sejm.[123]
The Sejm voted to lift Braun's immunity from criminal prosecution in relation to his attack on the Hanukkah menorah. Prosecutors previously said that they intended to charge him with seven counts also included earlier incidents of alleged aggression against a former health minister and public property. If convicted, he faces up to five years' imprisonment.[124]
During the presidential debates on 28 April 2025, he argued that "Jews have too much, far too much to say in Polish matters" and "the genocidal policies promoted by ministers, rabbis, and generals of the state ofIsrael could easily be turned against us." He claimed that Israel is "pushed on Poles as an ally, as some kind of aircraft carrier for European civilization in the Middle East."[125] He criticized presidential candidateRafał Trzaskowski for previously wearing a "Jewish daffodil", referring to a yellow daffodil worn annually to commemorate theWarsaw Ghetto Uprising, calling the flower "a symbol of shame".[126]
Trzaskowski said "What are you talking about? What shame? That was the uprising in the Warsaw Ghetto. Those are the heroes of our history. It's unbelievable. I won't listen to this,"[125] and left the podium.[127] After she was called to the podium,Magdalena Biejat called Braun's words "antisemitic filth" and said that they should not be tolerated inpublic debate.[128] A representative of the District Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw-Praga announced that an investigation had been initiated into possible hate speech charges against Braun.[129][130]
On 10 July 2025, Braun attended an event commemorating the anniversary of the 1941Jedwabne pogrom, where 40 Poles led by German forces massacred at least 340 Jews. Next to a monument, a banner from the Confederation of the Polish Crown was placed, which said "Enough of Jewish lies. TheJedwabne crime [..] was committed by the Germans. We demand more exhumations."[131] During the event, Braun called theChief Rabbi of Poland,Michael Schudrich, a criminal and a fraud.[132] Later, Braun and his supporters blocked a road that Schudrich was using to leave.[133]
In an interview withRadio Wnet on the same day, Braun claimed that thegas chambers at theAuschwitz concentration camp are "fake" and that anyone who dares to say otherwise is "accused of terrible things". He also said that Jews commit "ritual murder", also known asblood libel, which is the antisemitic canard that Jews use the blood of murdered Christian children in rituals, citingAriel Toaff's bookPassovers of Blood as evidence.[134] He was interrupted by the interviewer, who ended the interview early, saying that "there are certain limits".[135] A case was filed against Braun by the District Prosecutor's Office in WarsawŚródmieście under Article 55 of theAct on the Institute of National Remembrance, which criminalises public Holocaust denial,[136] punishable by a fine or up to three years in prison.[137]
The director of theAuschwitz-Birkenau State Museum,Piotr Cywiński, strongly condemned Braun's actions and said that the museum had both filed a complaint with the prosecutor's office and adefamation lawsuit against Braun.[138][139] Complaints with the prosecutor's office were also filed bythe Left MPAnna Maria Żukowska,[140] theInstitute of National Remembrance,[141] and thePilecki Institute.[142] Braun's actions were also condemned by the Israeli embassy in Poland,[143] the US embassy in Poland,[144] theUnited States Holocaust Memorial Museum,[145] Prime MinisterDonald Tusk,[146] PresidentAndrzej Duda,[147] Minister of the Interior and AdministrationTomasz Siemoniak,[148] Minister of Foreign AffairsRadosław Sikorski,[149] Minister for EqualityKatarzyna Kotula, Deputy Marshal of the SejmMonika Wielichowska, Deputy Marshal of the Senate Magdalena Biejat,[150] former Prime MinistersJarosław Kaczyński[151] andBeata Szydło, MEPKrzysztof Śmiszek, MPsMarta Golbik,Paweł Kukiz,Dorota Marek [pl], and SenatorAnna Górska.[150] Catholic archbishopsAdrian Joseph Galbas ofWarsaw,Józef Kupny ofWrocław, andGrzegorz Ryś ofŁódź issued statements criticising Braun.[152] TheAmerican Jewish Committee issued a statement saying that Braun's behaviour "exemplifies a dangerous normalization of hatred in public life".[153]
Interviewed on a podcast on 14 July, Braun again questioned the usage ofgas chambers at Auschwitz, saying that "the hypothesis of their existence in this and a number of other places is a tenuous one, not based on facts verified according to the standards of historical and scientific practice."[154][155] Two days later, theSenate issued a resolution condemning Braun's words and declaring them to be a violation of Polish law, adopted byacclamation.[156] According to Marshal of the SenateMałgorzata Kidawa-Błońska, the resolution was supported by allparliamentary groups.[157]
Braun supports the penalization of homosexual activity.[158] During an interview, Braun equated homosexuality withpedophilia, and proposedflagellation as a possible punishment.[159] In another interview, Braun claimed that homosexual sex is "very risky", "leads to premature death", and "increases the risk of all sorts of diseases".[160]
During a debate in the European Parliament about a Hungarian law banning the discussion of homosexuality andgender transition in schools, Braun said that there are three genders: "men, women, and people withpersonality disorders". After he was admonished by Vice PresidentKatarina Barley, he said, "Sodomites are, I believe, the missingproletariat in theworld revolution that you all very much need to carry out your projects. Keep yourselves,perverts, far away from our children." After this, Braun's microphone was turned off and he left the podium. For a period of two days, he was excluded from speeches and his parliamentary allowance (€350 a day) was withheld.[161]
On 18 March 2025, Braun vandalised a public exhibition in the old town market square inOpole titled "There’s more of us! Provoke equality with us" byTęczowe Opole (lit. 'Rainbow Opole'), a local LGBTQ organisation, depicting the history ofequality marches in the city. He wrote "stop pervert propaganda" in blackspray paint on the display boards.[162][163] He reported the exhibition to the police, claiming that it violated Article 140 of the Code on Petty Offenses, which prohibits "indecent behaviour" in public.[164][165] In response, Opole mayorArkadiusz Wiśniewski [pl] announced the cancellation of Braun's contract for renting a hall in the Exhibition and Congress Centre for a campaign event,[166][167] because "we cannot accept evil and discrimination".[168] He said that the city would seek damages of 35,000zł (US$8326.06) from Braun.[169]
On 11 June 2025, Braun destroyed a LGBT exhibition in the Sejm.[170] The exhibition, belonging toTęczowe Opole, was composed ofdisplay boards showing the history of equality marches in the Opole region,[171] which were thrown on the floor, bent, and trampled upon by Braun. He was escorted out of the building by security.[172] As a result of this, on 14 June 2025, Braun was barred from entering theSejm and Senate Complex.[173][174] TheMarshal of the Sejm,Szymon Hołownia, said that "there is no place for hooligans in the Sejm". He also said that as a result of the incident, he authorised theMarshal Guard to use physical force against people with legal immunity that are destroying property.[175] TheDeputy Marshal of the Sejm,Krzysztof Bosak, condemned both Braun's behaviour, which he called "inconsistent with the regulations of the Sejm", and the exhibition, which he said was "in line with negative ideological trends".[176] Minister for EqualityKatarzyna Kotula said that she had filed a complaint with the prosecutor's office.[177]
Braun is one of the main supporters of theanti-vaccine movement in Polish politics.[178]
In September 2021 Braun, in a speech in the Sejm, accused the government of increasing suicide rates in children via their actions to contain theCOVID-19 pandemic. He finished his speech addressing the minister of health,Adam Niedzielski, with the words "You will hang" (Będziesz pan wisiał).[179][180] These statements caused Braun to be excluded from further participation in that Sejm's sitting.[181] Niedzielski, along with the Speaker of the Sejm,Elżbieta Witek, filed to presspunishable threat charges against Braun, which were later dropped by the prosecutor citing "no signs of a crime". The claimants complained about the decision alleging insufficient investigation and lack of interrogation of the witnesses. In the following weeks Braun broke into the building of the Health Ministry, which, according to Niedzielski, was connected to Braun's words and his ties to the anti-vaccine movement. However, the court sustained the prosecutor's decision and provided an explanation that Braun's words, while inappropriate, were merely criticism, and that Niedzielski's alleged fear would have been irrational.[182]
A month later, Braun was fined 20,000zł (US$5181.35) for refusing to wear aface mask in the Sejm during theCOVID-19 pandemic; he maintains that his actions were "consistent with Polish law".[183] He had previously spoken at an anti-mask protest inBydgoszcz in 2020, where he compared the mask mandate to the Nazis forcing Jews to wear armbands as a precursor to sending them toghettos and then toextermination camps.[184]
Podsumowując ten wątek: Narodowe Odrodzenie Polski rekomenduje tym, którzy zdecydują się wziąć udział w tzw. wyborach prezydenckich wybór Grzegorza Brauna. Spośród 13 kandydatów jest jedynym, który na niepodległość Polski patrzy – bez wątpienia szczerze – jak na wartość samą w sobie.[To summarize this matter: the National Revival of Poland recommends to those, which decide to take part in the so-called presidential elections, to vote for Grzegorz Braun. Amongst the 13 candidates, he is the only one, who at the sovereignty of Poland looks – undoubtably honestly – as a value itself.]
Z drugiej strony mamy takie eksterytorialne placówki, centra dezinformacyjno-propagandowe, jak ośrodek Polin, zwany dla zmylenia przeciwnika (tj. narodu polskiego) Muzeum Historii Żydów Polskich.[On the other hand, we have extraterritorial institutions, disinformation and propaganda centres, such as Polin, which is misleadingly referred to as the Museum of the History of Polish Jews to confuse the enemy (i.e., the Polish nation).]
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