Grzegorz Braun of the Confederation took a fire extinguisher and then walked through the parliament hall to where the candles were., forming white clouds (…). Footage shows people nearby being hit by powder from a fire extinguisher. He then walked to the podium in the hall [plenarnej], in which he described Hanukkah as “satanic” and said it restored “normality,” explains Reuters. Asked immediately after the incident if he felt ashamed, Braun replied: “Those who practice Satanic worship should feel ashamed.”
The agency noted that Marshal Szymon Hołownia excluded Braun from the meeting and announced that he would inform the prosecutor’s office about his actions. “There will be no tolerance for racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism… as long as I am parliament speaker,” Hołownia told reporters.
As Reuters wrote, “Braun left the room shaking hands with other right-wing lawmakers.”
CBS News on Braun: Pro-Russian politician who believes in conspiracies
Instead, CBS News wrote that Braun was a member of the pro-Russian Confederacy party that previously claimed there was a conspiracy to turn Poland into a “Jewish state.”
The British Daily Mail wrote about shocking footage showing Braun extinguishing a candle, and seconds later one of the women “desperately tries to take the fire extinguisher from him, but the right-wing MP hits him in the face with white powder.”
See also: MP Braun’s scandalous behavior in the Sejm. Financial sanctions and application to the prosecutor’s office
Hanukkah holiday
Foreign media also explained that the nine-armed candelabra lighting ceremony took place in the Polish parliament on the occasion Jewish Festival of Lights (Hanukkah) with the participation of rabbis and a Jewish music band. The candles were lit again after the incident.
“All major political forces were quick to condemn the Braun incident, stating that there would be zero tolerance for anti-Semitic and xenophobic behavior in the Sejm, Poland’s parliament,” wrote the Daily Mail.
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