Robert Bąkiewicz published a video on social media in which he paints signs resembling the symbol of Fighting Poland on the building of the Ministry of Climate and Environment. – Do it throughout Poland – he encouraged. The police announced that they were conducting activities “in the direction of Article 108 of the Act on the protection and care of monuments.” The material is to be submitted to the prosecutor’s office on Friday.
UPDATE: There is information about police activities
Robert Bąkiewicz published a video in front of the headquarters of the Ministry of Climate and Environment on the X platform at 23:50 on Thursday. “After taking power, Donald Tusk’s government, after taking over many buildings, is destroying everything that is Polish and national,” says a nationalist who for years organized the Independence March on the streets of Warsaw at the beginning of the recording. Further on, he criticized the head of the Ministry of Climate and Environment, Paulina Hennig-Kloska, for removing the Fighting Poland sign and the plaque commemorating the Cursed Soldiers from the wall in the ministry’s headquarters. Then he took out a can of black spray and painted two signs resembling PW symbols on the building’s facade. – I hope that tomorrow, when the minister comes to work, she will see the signs of Fighting Poland. Do it throughout Poland, he encouraged.
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Photo of the symbol of Fighting Poland and the plaque commemorating the Cursed Soldiers
Bąkiewicz published the recording after PiS MPs announced a request to the prosecutor’s office to remove the symbol of Fighting Poland and the plaque commemorating the Cursed Soldiers from the wall in the building of the Ministry of Climate and Environment. “It seemed that the sign of Fighting Poland was a sacred symbol for all Poles. But not for Tusk’s government,” wrote former Prime Minister Beata Szydło on the X platform on Thursday.
As the ministry’s spokesman Hubert Różyk explained, “the sign was removed, as were the boards, because the renovation of the corridor and rooms is starting in this part of the building.” – The sign is plastic and was attached directly to the wall, so there was no other way to remove it than to tear it off. If today we hear that someone does not respect symbols that are important for Poland, we must ask ourselves whether sticking plastic Fighting Poland signs is respecting the symbol and values for which people died? – emphasized Różyk and assessed the situation around the sign and boards as “a storm in a teacup”
Criticism of Bąkiewicz’s recording
Robert Bąkiewicz’s recording was viewed over 270,000 times within 10 hours of publication. times. There were many comments under the video. Internet users pointed out, among others: attention that the national activist painted his paintings on the facade of a historic building. Indeed, according to the website of the Warsaw City Hall, the building at 52/54 Wawelska Street (former headquarters of the General Directorate of State Forests) is a monument included in the municipal register of monuments of the capital city since 2012. Warsaw.
As prosecutor Ewa Wrzosek noted on Platform
Commenters also noticed that the symbol painted by Bąkiewicz looks different than the original. “(Bąkiewicz – ed.) does not even know what the symbol of Fighting Poland looks like, which consists of the letters PW and not PU,” notes the Center for Monitoring Racist and Xenophobic Behavior in a post on social media, adding that it has sent a notification of the crime to the Prosecutor’s Office District Warsaw Mokotów.
Police “conducting activities”
The Warsaw Police Headquarters referred to Bąkiewicz’s recording in a statement. “In connection with the recording published on social media in front of the headquarters of the Ministry of Climate and Environment, the police are investigating Article 108 of the Act on the protection and care of monuments. The collected material will be forwarded to the Prosecutor’s Office today,” we read in an entry published on Friday afternoon .
On flags, tattoos and next to the phalanx. The insurgents protest: the sign of Fighting Poland is almost sacred. The sign of Fighting Poland is a symbol of the Warsaw Uprising. In recent years, it can be seen more and more often on flags, scarves and T-shirts during demonstrations that have nothing to do with the ideas of the insurgents. The insurgents themselves protest against the appropriation of the symbol of Fighting Poland. – The Symbol of Fighting Poland is almost sacred – said Anna Teresa Jakubowska, pseudonym “Paulinka”.Fakty TVN
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