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29th Mar 2024

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Kaczynski reacts after Polish church child abuse film

A Polish documentary film about paedophile priests on Saturday (11 May) had reached nearly seven million views by Monday on YouTube and forced the leader of the country's ruling Law and Justice party (PiS), Jaroslaw Kaczynski, to promise harsher sentences for child abuse at a party convention on Sunday. The film "Just don't tell anyone" by brothers Tomasz and Marek Sekielski, confronts elderly priests with their victims.

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