Case information
Incident date Jun 5, 2022
Country Poland
Place Warsaw Categories Social Hostility / Intolerance Perpetrator / Motive Indicators Hate Crime & Violent Incidents Vandalism (all) Vandalism of Public Christian Symbol Intolerance towards Religious Symbols Place of Incident Public Christian Symbol (outside place of worship) Bias Indicators Comments/Written Statements/Gestures/Graffiti Significance of Property/Structure/Location to religious community Response of Local Authorities Case information
Incident date Jun 5, 2022
Country Poland
Place Warsaw Categories Social Hostility / Intolerance Perpetrator / Motive Indicators Hate Crime & Violent Incidents Vandalism (all) Vandalism of Public Christian Symbol Intolerance towards Religious Symbols Place of Incident Public Christian Symbol (outside place of worship) Bias Indicators Comments/Written Statements/Gestures/Graffiti Significance of Property/Structure/Location to religious community Response of Local Authorities Image credit: Wikipedia licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Poland license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/pl/deed.en) An unknown perpetrator committed an act of vandalism against the St. Maximilian Kolbe parish in Warsaw. The vandal scrawled blue paint on the statue of St. Maximilian Kolbe and the Papal Cross (from Pope John Paul's II 1st Pilgrimage to Poland), standing on church grounds. The incident occurred on June 5.
