The Law and Justice party, which threatens to ‘re-Christianise the EU’, arrested the woman who had a Virgin Mary with a rainbow-coloured halo
Jarosław Kaczyński , the leader of Poland's Christian Law and Justice Party. Picture: REUTERS
Police raided the home of Elzbieta Podlesna at 6am on Monday and questioned her for several hours, saying the images — similar to ones put up across her town last month — may break a law on offending religious beliefs. The raid comes during a closely fought campaign for the May 26 European Parliament elections, where the ruling Christian Law and Justice Party is portraying itself as the saviour of traditional values on a continent that has lost its moral compass. After pro-EU opposition groups teamed up for the ballot, the government is seeking to energise its core electorate to take part in a vote where turnout is usually low.
Images of the rainbow-coloured version of the Virgin Mary of Częstochowa, the country’s most revered religious icon, have mushroomed across social media since the police detainment. This has shown the government’s difficulty to control the issue.
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