Poland – A priest was convicted of antisemitism. The first verdict of this kind in Poland

Michal Woźnicki. Photo. Piotr Skornicki / Agencja
Michal Woźnicki. Photo. Piotr Skornicki / Agencja Wyborcza.pl

A court in Poznań sentenced the controversial priest Michal Woźnicki to six months of community service, 30 hours a month.

In October 2021, during a sermon broadcast on the Internet, Father Michał Woźnicki said that “Jews in the world have assumed the role of a leech, a tick, a body that lives on the host’s body, swells, leading the host’s body to death, moving on to the next one.”

“You have suffered because you have denied Christ the King and you have yours, Jews,” he added. 

He also said that the devil uses Jews, leading to a situation where a small child, instead of folding his hands to God, turns on his mobile phone, and then watches “a naked woman and a naked man” and “like a man with a man, or a woman with a woman”.

The judgment is not final.

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