Warsaw. Someone painted the monument to the Heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto

On Friday before 10 a.m., tvnwarszawa.pl reporter Artur Węgrzynowicz was on site. – On the front of the monument you can see a rectangle painted with red and black paints – he said.

The police were notified about the case.

– We received a report about the incident at this location around 6 a.m. We performed a number of activities, including with the participation of a crime scene technician. At the moment, no official notification has been submitted in this matter. Nevertheless, the police are conducting preliminary activities – junior aspirant Jakub Pacyniak from the Warsaw I District Headquarters told us. – They are being carried out in the direction of Article 261 of the Penal Code – added the policeman.

The article cited by the officer concerns the crime of insulting a monument or other public place arranged to commemorate a historical event or honor a person.

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“In order to identify and arrest the perpetrator or perpetrators of this crime, the police have already secured the CCTV footage and inspected the scene of the incident. Other activities are in progress,” the police said.

Earlier, on Platform The head of the Ministry of Interior and Administration condemned this type of acts of vandalism and hatred.

“Identifying the perpetrator and bringing him to justice is the priority of the Warsaw police and other services,” he assured.

This act was also condemned by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Israeli ambassador to Poland.

Israeli ambassador to Poland Yakov Liwne called on the Polish authorities to condemn this act of vandalism. “The Warsaw Ghetto Monument has been vandalized. I call on the Polish authorities to condemn this act, find the culprits and bring them to justice. This is not the first act of anti-Semitic vandalism in this place. Only decisive action will put an end to it,” the ambassador wrote on the X platform.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly condemned “the act of vandalism aimed at the Monument to the Heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto – a symbol of memory of the victims of the Holocaust and Jewish resistance to German Nazism.” “Such actions are an attack on history and the values ​​that unite us as a society,” says the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' statement on the X platform.

The red and black flag was used by the OUN-UPA, but for Ukrainians it has a much broader meaning and generally symbolizes Ukraine's fight for independence. The black color refers to the Ukrainian land, and the red color refers to the blood of fighters shed on it in the fight for freedom and independence of Ukraine.