On the images disseminated on social networks, we can see the deputy seizing a fire extinguisher with determination. After removing the pin, he heads for the Menorah and turned off the candles one by one.
While the Polish deputies were preparing to hold, yesterday, Tuesday, December 12, a vote of confidence on the government, the session was interrupted.
An elected far right, Grzegorz Braun, used a fire extinguisher to turn off the candles on a Menara in the enclosure of the Parliament, where a ceremony took place to celebrate the Jewish feast of Hanuka.
The elected official does not have the least of the world regretted his gesture, he declared on X, ex-owner, which he invited the deputies to a “theological and historical” debate.
He then republished a message complaining about the presence of Jewish symbols in Parliament and the fact that Poland is “governed” by individuals in the service of other nations.
“An unacceptable thing has happened, which should never happen again, it is a shame,” Prime Minister Donald Tusk told the press while the president of the Parliament excluded Grzegorz Braun, deputy for the far -right party Konfederacja, for this act “of racism, xenophobia and anti -Semitism”.
The Israeli Ambassador to Poland reacted to the incident, deploring a shameful action carried out on the occasion of the traditional Jewish party in Hanuka, synonymous with candles ignition.
In the Arab world, the act of Grzegorz Braun was applauded, thousands of comments on social networks praised the behavior of the Polish elected official as a response to the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
