PiS want Antifa to be recognized as a terrorist organization

PiS MPs intend to submit an interpellation to Prime Minister Donald Tusk, demanding that Poland request the EU to recognize Antifa as a terrorist organization, PiS MP Dariusz Matecki announced on Wednesday. The MPs also announced a return to the draft legislation “on the defense of Christians.”

During a conference in the Sejm, PiS MP and former Minister of Justice Zbigniew Ziobro recalled the death of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, who was shot dead on September 10 during a debate at Utah Valley University.

After Kirk's death, US President Donald Trump decided to designate Antifa, an anti-fascist movement originating in Germany, as a terrorist organization. Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban later announced Hungary's intention to take similar action.

According to Ziobro, Kirk's killer, 22-year-old Tyler Robinson, “identified with LGBT activists.” “We want to oppose leftist tendencies and demands to impose their own, in this case leftist, views through state violence or physical violence,” emphasized the former head of the Ministry of Justice.

PiS MP Dariusz Matecki announced that he and other MPs from the Law and Justice party would submit an interpellation to Prime Minister Donald Tusk. “We demand that we follow the example of the United States and Hungary and that Poland submit a motion to the European Union to recognize Antifa as a terrorist organization,” Matecki emphasized.

Ziobro also announced that the PiS club would return to the citizens' draft amendment to the Penal Code “on the defense of Christians,” which provided for prosecution for, among other things, desecration of the cross and other Christian symbols, and which was rejected by the Sejm in April 2024. (PAP)