
The District Prosecutor's Office in Wrocław brought charges against Grzegorz Braun in connection with incidents in Oleśnica and Opole and statements on the Internet.
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On April 16, 2025, Grzegorz Braun stormed the hospital in Oleśnica, claiming that he was arresting a female doctor. Earlier, in December 2023, he used a fire extinguisher in the Sejm to extinguish the Hanukkah candle.
In total, the prosecutor of the District Prosecutor's Office in Wrocław announced six charges against Grzegorz Braun.
The first charge concerned the deprivation of liberty of a gynecologist, which took place on April 16, 2025 at the hospital in Oleśnica. The second charge concerned violating the doctor's bodily integrity. The next charges concerned insulting and slandering the same victim.
Additionally, on December 14, 2023, Braun was charged with public incitement via the Internet to hatred based on religious differences and with committing the offense of obstructing religious acts and insulting religious feelings. It concerns an interview published on the Internet regarding, among other things, the use of a fire extinguisher in the Sejm to extinguish a Hanukkah candle displayed there. As the prosecutor's office justified, in this interview Braun expressed approval and encouraged viewers and listeners to engage in this type of behavior. Braun also described Hanukkah as a manifestation of a satanic and racist celebration that poses a threat to Polish Catholics, which should be counteracted.
The last and sixth charge announced to the suspect concerned the destruction of posters on the market square in Opole on March 18, 2025, to the detriment of the Tęczowe Opole association.
Braun refused to sign the interrogation report
The charges were announced against the suspect in the presence of his defense lawyer. He refused to provide explanations and sign both the decision to present charges and the interrogation report. He refused to provide any data. All documents were signed by the suspect's lawyer.
On April 16, 2025, Grzegorz Braun, then a candidate for president, broke into the District Hospital Complex in Oleśnica and tried to prevent gynecologist Gizela Jagielska from working. He claimed he was making a citizen's arrest.
The doctor, reporting to PAP what happened in the Oleśnica hospital, said, among other things, that Braun broke into the administrative department, blocked her way and locked her in the administration room for over an hour.
He insulted me and threatened me, and there was also a fight against me because when I wanted to leave, I was pushed and pulled, the doctor said then.
Braun: I'm making a citizen's arrest
The recording published by local media shows Braun discussing with police officers in the Oleśnica hospital and praying beforehand. He says he is "working for the Republic of Poland."
Allowing this lady to work is putting the lives of Poles at risk (editor's note). I am making a citizen's arrest and I call on you, policemen, to prevent Mrs. Gizela Jagielska from ever having contact with patients, including minors, said the presidential candidate.
The hospital in Oleśnica became famous thanks to the publication about the story of a patient from Łódź who decided to have an abortion there because of the threat to her health.

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