{
  "id": 7781877,
  "title": "European Parliament strips Polish far-right leader of immunity to face Holocaust denial charge",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/european-parliament-strips-polish-far-right-leader-of-immunity-to",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-16T12:00:25.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Notes from Poland",
    "slug": "notes-from-poland",
    "url": "https://notesfrompoland.com/2026/09/16/european-parliament-strips-polish-far-right-leader-of-immunity-to-face-holocaust-denial-charge/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The European Parliament has once again stripped the legal immunity of Polish far-right leader Grzegorz Braun, allowing him to face charges in Poland for Holocaust denial. This marks the sixth time that the European Parliament has lifted Braun's immunity, with the second instance being for charges related to Holocaust denial. Braun is currently on trial in Poland for an attack on a Jewish religious celebration in parliament and faces several other legal cases.\n\nIn a vote held on Tuesday, a majority of MEPs approved a request submitted by Poland’s justice minister, Waldemar Żurek, to lift Braun's immunity. The request stated that Polish prosecutors wish to charge Braun for denying the genocide committed by functionaries of the Third Reich at the Auschwitz-Birkenau and Lublin concentration camps, particularly the use of gas chambers. The accusation also involves Braun's use of gas chambers at these camps during a live event broadcast online on September 27, 2025.\n\nBraun had previously referred to the gas chambers as \"a dark, monstrous fantasy that has no satisfactory historical or academic support\" and claimed that their existence was part of \"propaganda and black PR operations conducted by the Soviet and Anglo-Saxon security services during World War Two.\" He suggested that the claim was exploited by Jews today. Historians estimate that around 900,000 people, mainly Jews, were killed in the gas chambers at Auschwitz, while tens of thousands were killed at Majdanek.",
  "summary": "It is the sixth time that the EP has lifted Braun's immunity, and the second time for charges of Holocaust denial.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}