Grzegorz Braun MEP has torn down an exhibition organised by a pro-LGBT association Opole Rainbow during his visit to the Polish parliament.
He did so because he objected to displays of what he said was “LGBT ideology”. Despite the incident, reporters on site confirmed the presentation had since been reinstalled.
The exhibition was set up on June 11 in parliament and within hours Braun had attacked the small display, destroying it.
Footage posted on the social media platform X showed him pulling down and trampling the posters.
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Braun claimed his action was in defence of the public interest.
“I am preventing a public scandal,” he said as he has argued that LGBT displays were an affront to the Catholic faith and public decency.
This was not the first time Braun has targeted LGBT-themed exhibitions by the same organisation. He previously demolished a similar display in March this year in the town square in the southern Polish city of Opole.
The devout Catholic was elected an MEP last year, standing for the right-wing Confederation party. Yet, as a result of an incident he was involved in as a Polish MP back in 2023, he has not been admitted by any of the right-wing groupings in the European Parliament.
In 2023, he had put out a Hanukkah festival menorah with a fire extinguisher in the Polish parliament building.
The MEP has had his parliamentary immunity lifted over the matter and was facing charges of incitement to hatred in Poland.t
He has also been involved in disrupting the commemoration of the Hamas attack on Israel in the EP. In another incident, he took part in the burning of a European Union flag and taking down a Ukrainian flag from a public building in eastern Poland.
This year, Braun left the Confederation party to stand as a presidential candidate for his own Confederation of the Polish Crown grouping. He managed to poll more than 6 per cent in that ballot.
He stood on a platform of opposing Polish membership of the EU, resistance to “the Ukrainisation and Judaisation of Poland” and the restoration of capital punishment.
During the election campaign, Braun stormed into a hospital maternity ward in southern Poland and attempted a citizen’s arrest on a doctor who had performed a termination procedure on an unborn child.
Following the presidential election result in early June, he reluctantly backed the victorious Karol Nawrocki, of the opposition Conservatives (PiS). That was after he secured promises from Nawrocki to take a tough stance on Ukraine over its refusal to call the Second World War Volhynia massacre an act of “genocide”.
Braun also secured a pledge that there would be no Hanukkah celebrations in the Polish Presidential Palace during Nawrocki’s reign.
