“Since the bill also contains a number of other provisions needed by the Polish state, it is likely that the document will be returned to the vote later in a slightly modified form.”, — write: www.unian.ua
Since the bill also contains a number of other provisions needed by the Polish state, it is likely that the document will be returned to the vote later in a slightly modified form.
The new president of Poland is not too loyal to Ukrainians / photo WikipediaThe Polish Sejm rejected President Karol Nawrocki’s bill, which proposed introducing criminal liability for “propaganda of banderism.” This is reported by RMF24.
As the publication notes, back in August, the Seimas rejected the government bill on extending the period of stay of Ukrainian refugees in Ukraine and on tougher conditions for providing them with financial assistance. President Navrotsky submitted an alternative bill that duplicates most of the government’s provisions, but also has additional items.
In particular, the presidential draft law contained amendments to the Criminal Code, which provide for tougher punishment for illegal crossing of the Polish border – up to five years of imprisonment. Potentially, Ukrainian evaders who illegally crossed the border bypassing checkpoints also fall under this norm.
But the biggest scandal was caused by the rule on the introduction of punishment for “propaganda of banderism and the activities of the OUN-UPA”. Navrotsky proposed to equate such propaganda with the propaganda of Nazism, communism and fascism. The latter is punishable in Poland by imprisonment for up to three years.
In addition, the president’s bill had a clause that required the Polish Institute of National Remembrance to collect and publish documents on crimes committed against Poles by “members and collaborators of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists of the Bandera faction and the Ukrainian Insurgent Army, as well as other Ukrainian formations that collaborated with the German Third Reich.”
Anti-Ukrainian sentiments in PolandAs UNIAN wrote, a wave of anti-Ukrainian sentiments fueled by Russian propaganda and Polish right-wing populist politicians has recently been recorded in Poland. This affects, in particular, the criminal situation: statistics of attacks on Ukrainians in Poland record a trend of rapid growth.
The situation has already become so obviously shameful that the Prime Minister of Poland, Donald Tusk, drew attention to it.
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