Polish ruling party chairman Jarosław Kaczyński (l) has in the past claimed refugees from the Middle East could bring diseases and parasites to Poland (Photo: pis.org)

Four Polish MEPs stripped of immunity over migrant-hate clip

Migration

Rule of Law

EU Political

by Nikolaj Nielsen, Brussels,

The European Parliament has lifted the immunity of four rightwing Polish MEPs over allegedly inciting hatred against Muslim immigrants during a municipal electoral campaign in 2018.

The vote, on Thursday (9 November), stripped the parliamentary immunity of Patryk Jaki, Tomasz Piotr Poręba, Beata Mazurek, and Beata Kempa.

Poręba and Mazurek hail from the rulling Polish nationalist-conservative Law and Justice party (PiS), which has drummed up fear

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Nikolaj joined EUobserver in 2012 and covers home affairs. He is originally from Denmark, but spent much of his life in France and in Belgium. He was awarded the King Baudouin Foundation grant for investigative journalism in 2010.

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Polish ruling party chairman Jarosław Kaczyński (l) has in the past claimed refugees from the Middle East could bring diseases and parasites to Poland (Photo: pis.org)