Police accuse 51-year-old woman from Płock of ‘desecration’ of respected image
A woman has been arrested on suspicion of offending devout sentiment after posters bearing the symbol of the Virgin Mary with her halo painted in the colors of the rainbow flag made the impression in the central Polish city of Płock.
Polish Interior Minister Joachim Brudziński announced Monday on Twitter that he had been arrested for “desecrating the Virgin Mary of Częstochowa. “
A spokeswoman for Płock police said a 51-year-old woman had been arrested for the alleged crime. The woman was abroad, but when she returned, police entered and searched her home, where they found several dozen photographs of the Virgin Mary with the rainbow. -Color halo.
The “Black Madonna of Częstochowa” is a venerated Byzantine icon living in the Jasna Góra Monastery, a UN World Heritage Site and the holiest Catholic shrine in Poland.
Offending feelings is a crime under the Polish Criminal Code. If convicted, the woman can face up to two years in prison.
Brudziński, who called the posters “cultural barbarism” when they gave the impression during the April night, said: “Telling stories about freedom and ‘tolerance’ does not give the right to offend the emotions of believers. “
Poland’s right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party has sought to mobilise its electorate in the run-up to the European elections by raising the specter of a defeated country through Western liberal social values.
“We are dealing with a direct attack on the circle of relatives and young people: the sexualization of young people, this total LBGT movement, gender,” PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński told his followers last month. “It is imported, but today they threaten our identity, our nation, its continuation and therefore the Polish state. “