The police are investigating the propaganda of a fascist or totalitarian regime
The anti-Ukrainian and pro-Putin slogans raised during the wave of protests of farmersthey in Polandmay have been influenced by “Russian agents”, the Polish Foreign Ministry said today, quoted by France Presse, BTA reported.
“We believe this is an attempt to establish control over the farmers’ protest movement by extremist and irresponsible groups that may be influenced by Russian agents,” the ministry said in a statement.
During a demonstration yesterday, farmers in Gorzycki, southern Poland, held up a banner that read:Putin, restore order in Ukraine, Brussels and our government,” waving a Soviet Union flag.
The photo of the banner was circulated on social networks, which provoked a sharp reaction from Kiev.
Warsaw “notes with great concern the appearance of anti-Ukrainian slogans and others praising Vladimir Putin and the war he is waging during the recent farmers’ blockades,” the Polish ministry said in a statement, stressing that such actions create “a bad image of Poland”.
A local police spokesman told AFP today that the “flag and banner” had been “seized”. “The person driving the vehicle has been identified,” law enforcement said.
Police have launched an investigation into propagandizing a fascist or totalitarian regime and inciting hatred, a crime punishable in Poland by up to three years in prison.
The Polish Minister of Secret Services, Tomasz Simoniak, today described the banner as “scandalous” and the incident as a “provocation”.
Polish farmers started a new wave of protests yesterday, blocking about a hundred roads in the country and border crossings with Ukraine, dissatisfied with the “uncontrolled” grain imports from Ukraine and the European agricultural policy.
“Recent weeks have shown that farmers’ discontent has indeed reached its zenith. Poland has not seen such numerous and massive protests for a long time. The fact that the problem is serious is evidenced by successive agricultural movements at the local level. More and more professional groups are joining and the views of the protesters are becoming dangerously radical,” wrote representatives of the Zamość Agricultural Society in a letter to the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Czeslaw Sikerski, quoted by the Polish publication farmer.pl.
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