"Kill A Priest" and Other Insulting Tags on Cemetery Cross
In the Cemetery of the Victims of World War II in Gdansk, unknown perpetrators desecrated a cross on October 31st. On one side of the Cross the vandals wrote "Women's Hell" and "Kill a Priest" with white paint, and on the other side the cross was tagged with an insult against the PiS party. The incident was reported to the police.
"We regret to inform you that the cross in the Zaspa cemetery was destroyed. It is the burial place of, among others, the defenders of the Polish Post, Polish railroad workers and over 20,000 Poles murdered during World War II. After the police have completed the investigation, we will immediately proceed to repairing the damage. There is no consent to vandalism, aggression and profaning of religious symbols in our city "- Wrote the Mayor of Gdańsk Aleksandra Dulkiewicz on her Facebook Site.
"I was sad to hear about yesterday's desecration of the Cemetery of the Victims of Hitlerism in Gdańsk Zaspa. For me it is an incomprehensible act of destroying the traces of memory about those who fought and died for the freedom of Poland. So if, in the name of the same freedom - views, statements and assemblies - you profane crosses, plaques and monuments, it means that this is a wrongly understood freedom. This is ordinary hooliganism and vandalism, which does not lead to anything good, it does not serve any purpose." - Piotr Tarnowski, director of the Stutthof Museum.
Sources: Polsat News, Twitter, Facebook, Radio Gdansk
Photo by Gdanski Komisarz (Twitter)