The European Parliament’s legal affairs committee voted this week to lift the immunity of four Polish members accused in their home country of hate crime charges for liking posts on social media that were critical of mass migration in 2018.
The allegations were found credible by a district court in Warsaw, however the protections granted to MEPs prevented the quartet from being prosecuted in Poland. Now stripped of those protections, the trial will be allowed to commence.
According to the EU Observer, two of the MEPs, Tomasz Piotr Poręba and Beata Mazurek, hail from the ruling nationalist-conservative Law and Justice Party (PiS) while the other two, Patryk Jaki and Beata Kempa, belong to the Catholic-nationalist Sovereign Poland Party.
In 2018, PiS was campaigning in local Polish elections, and one of their advertisements claimed that if their rivals were voted in, the country would be overrun with migrants and that in just two years it would suffer the same fate as many western European nations.
The ad was liked and shared by the aforementioned politicians on Twitter or…
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