The Ukrainian flag was torn down from the mast on the Kościuszko Mound in Krakow. Confederation MP Grzegorz Braun mentioned on the X platform that “as an sincere finder” he was handing over the Ukrainian flag, “which was within the flawed place,” to the consulate. The police are investigating this matter, and the Małopolska Voivode pronounces that he’ll submit a notification to the Deputies’ Ethics Committee. A couple of hours following the incident, the Ukrainian flag returned to the mound.
/Małgorzata Wosion /RMF24
The director of the Kościuszko Mound workplace, Leszek Cierpiałowski, instructed RMF FM {that a} group of 18 individuals entered the mound within the morning. A few of them purchased entrance tickets in money, others paid with playing cards. On the high, the flag was taken, Cierpiałowski experiences. The perpetrators broken the mast and the flag can’t be hung once more as a result of the mast locks had been broken.
He added that there have been many individuals on the high. It’s not clear who did it, however MP Grzegorz Braun was within the group. It was recorded by different cameras, Cierpiałowski mentioned.
Grzegorz Braun’s account on the X platform accommodates info that he took down the flag and his declaration that he’s sending it to the consulate.
The police are already investigating the case. In reference to in the present day’s intervention on the Kościuszko Mound on Aleja Washington relating to the theft of the Ukrainian flag and harm to property within the type of a flagpole and one of many cameras, Krakow law enforcement officials carried out an inspection on the scene of the incident and are accumulating proof on this case – mentioned the spokesman of the Municipal Police Headquarters in Krakow, Subcomm. Piotr Szpiech.
He added that the proof can be forwarded to the prosecutor’s workplace, which can conduct a authorized and legal evaluation of the incident. Investigators will subsequently look at whether or not he ought to be held accountable for theft, destruction of property, and maybe additionally spreading ethnic discord.
In keeping with the Voivode of Lesser Poland, Krzysztof Jan Klęczar, eradicating the flag from the Kościuszko Mound is an motion towards “the choice of the entity that’s the historic and authorized guardian of the Kościuszko Mound” and requires evaluation from the viewpoint of potential authorized penalties.
Grzegorz Braun /Pawel Wodzynski /East Information
The voivode introduced that he would submit a report back to the Deputies’ Ethics Committee.
President of the Kościuszko Mound Committee in Krakow, prof. Ph.D. Piotr Dobosz issued a press release during which he emphasised that “the unlawful act of damaging the mast and taking the flag is opposite to the values embodied by the Determine and Lifetime of Tadeusz Kościuszko.”
The flag has been hanging on the Kościuszko Mound because the Russian aggression towards Ukraine as an indication of solidarity with the Ukrainian nation.
“The Kościuszko Mound Committee in Krakow, referring to the thought of Tadeusz Kościuszko combating for the liberty of many Nations, determined to hold the Ukrainian flag in solidarity with Ukraine combating heroically,” defined Prof. Drummer.
The Kościuszko Mound once more with the Ukrainian flag / Małgorzata Wosion / RMF FM
The flag of our japanese neighbor returned to its place a couple of hours following the incident involving MP Grzegorz Braun.
