Three males were cleared of wrongdoing after toppling the statue of a former Polish priest suspected of sexually abusing kids.
The activists won prominence by means of knocking over the effigy of Henryk Jankowski in February 2019.
Jankowski rose to prominence within the Nineteen Eighties via his give a boost to for the pro-democracy Solidarity motion towards Poland’s communist regime. After his loss of life in 2010, proof fastened that he had allegedly abused girls and boys all over his priesthood.
Polish officers to start with refused to take down a statue honouring him, prior to 3 males selected to behave.
Konrad Korzeniowski, Rafal Suszek, and Michal Wojcieszczuk toppled the statue all over the night time and reported themselves to the police, explaining they’d acted for the great of the neighborhood. The transfer was once a symbolic second within the historically Catholic nation’s reckoning with clerical abuse.
The 3 males additionally accused the Polish church of “systemic complicity in the evil done to people by Henryk Jankowski”.
Last yr, a decrease court docket discovered them to blame of insulting and destroying the monument however selected to not impose a penalty because of the “low social harmfulness” of the act.
On Monday, the Gdansk district court docket dominated on enchantment to acquit the 3 males.
Shipyard employees to start with re-erected the statue of Jankowski prior to town councillors voted to take away it completely and rename the sq..
