President of Law and Justice Jarosław Kaczyński powerfully criticized Euro MP Grzegorz Braun for denying the Holocaust. PiS politician stated that Braun's statements are "an shameful historical lie", which destroys Polish relations with the United States. Kaczyński referred to Braun's controversial words of July 10, 2025, in which the Euro MP denied the existence of gas chambers in Auschwitz.
During his speech in Lublin on Sunday, Jarosław Kaczyński powerfully condemned Grzegorz Braun's last statements. The MEP of the Confederation of the Polish Crown in a radio speech dated July 10, 2025, on the eve of the anniversary of the execution in Jedwabne, denied the presence of gas chambers in Auschwitz.
Braun then stated that people should be persuaded to “do not believe in all kinds of fairy tales”. The president of PiS assessed these words as a blow to Polish national interests.
Damage to the United States
«What Braun is doing is hitting our most simple interests. Saying that there was no Holocaust, first is simply a shameful historical lie, but besides destroys our relations with the United States" - said Kaczyński. The politician emphasized that in the United States there was no administration as closely connected with judaic environments as the current one.
«These are not only shameful things, but besides highly harmful things, but most likely done with any thought, with a certain concept" - added the president of the Law and Justice Office. Kaczyński suggested that Braun's actions could be deliberate and thoughtful.
Fire extinguisher case in the Sejm
The president of the Law and Justice besides referred to the December incidental in the Sejm erstwhile Grzegorz Braun extinguished a Khanuk candle utilizing a fire extinguisher. «It is actual that the process is starting, but someway all this is very slow and not very energetic» - Kaczyński assessed the advancement of the case.
The European Parliament in May 2025 waived Braun's immunity in connection with an investigation into spiritual insults. The proceedings besides include a number of another incidents, including the blocking of prof. Jan Grabowski's lecture on the Holocaust at the German Historical Institute in May 2023.
Further prosecution applications
Last week, lawyer General Adam Bodnar made another request to the European Parliament to waive immunity for Braun. It concerns proceedings involving 4 different incidents of 2025.
Among the charges included: the demolition in June 2025 of an exhibition devoted to the LGBT+ community in the main hall of the Sejm and the talk of the organisers of the «Windkile» action during the tv debate of presidential candidates in April 2025. Additionally, Braun is accused of stealing Ukraine's flag from the City Office in Biała Podlaska in April 2025 and stealing the European Union flag from the hall of the Ministry of manufacture in Katowice in May 2025.
IPN investigation
In parallel, the Institute of National Memory launched an investigation into Braun's public denial of genocide crimes. The investigation concerns the denial of crimes committed in the German Nazi concentration camp and Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp.
The IPN investigative branch examines the statements of the Euro MP, which contradict the facts of the Holocaust. This is another step towards bringing Braun to account for controversial statements.
(PAP) Note: This article was edited with Artificial Intelligence.
