Called on Putin to 'deal with Ukraine'. In Poland, a farmer will go to court.

Farmer facing trial in Poland
Farmer facing trial in Poland

The prosecutor's office of Gliwice filed an indictment against farmer Piotr H. and his daughter Agata H., who during a farmers' protest in February in the town of Gorzice (Silesia) displayed a USSR flag and a banner addressed to dictator Vladimir Putin on a tractor. This is reported by RMF24.

In February, they participated in a nationwide farmers' protest that took place in various parts of the country.

During the passage of a column of agricultural machinery in Gorzice, on the front of the tractor in which the suspects were riding, the father and daughter displayed a banner with the message 'Putin, deal with Ukraine and Brussels, and with our authorities', and next to it they attached a USSR flag.

Piotr H. and Agata H. initially did not plead guilty, indicating that they wanted to 'draw attention to current agricultural issues'. Subsequently, they both admitted their guilt and filed a motion for voluntary consent to punishment.

In Poland, public incitement to aggressive warfare or its glorification is punishable by up to five years in prison. Public propaganda of communism or another totalitarian ideology is punishable by up to three years in prison.

Recall, back in February, the farmer who on Tuesday during a protest displayed a USSR flag and a poster with the slogan 'Putin, restore order with Ukraine, Brussels, and our officials' was formally charged.

At the Time, three Ukrainian grain wagons carrying rapeseed, transiting to Hamburg (Germany), were damaged by unknown persons at a Polish railway station. Polish police also launched an investigation into a new case involving spilled grain cargo from Ukraine.


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