KUL lecturer dismissed. “She commented on death in an unacceptable way.”

This is about the entry: "three votes less for the conference", which was posted on Facebook by Dr. Katarzyna Pejda from the 2nd Department of Sinology at the Catholic University of Lublin, under the information about the discovery of three bodies in the house of the perpetrator of the shooting in Krakow.

Two other users commented critically on Pejda's entry, to which her response was: "yes, seriously. The tragedy took place in Krakow, not in the nest that raised this rat."

A decisive reaction from the university authorities

In connection with the lecturer's statements, the university's spokesman Wojciech Andrusiewicz announced that the rector of KUL decided to immediately terminate the employment contract with Dr. Pejda.

"The Rector of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin decided today to terminate with immediate effect the employment contract of an academic teacher who, last weekend, commented in an inadmissible manner on the death of the family murdered in Ostrowiec Świętokrzyski," the university's statement emphasized.

"The behavior of the now dismissed academic employee was in clear contradiction to the principles of social coexistence and the values ​​that constitute the foundation of the activity of the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin. We require an academic teacher to take care of ethical and moral standards, which in this case were clearly violated," the university said.

As reported, the decision to dismiss the teacher was made independently by the university's rector. It was not related to the disciplinary proceedings that had previously been initiated against Dr. Pejda for her entries. "The Rector decided that the employee's offense was too serious and consequences should be drawn," Andrusiewicz explained. Due to the immediate dismissal, further disciplinary proceedings became pointless.

Dr. Pejda's entries have already been removed from social media. Confederation activist Rafał Mekler announced the controversial comments on social media.

Shooting in Krakow

The attack took place last Saturday on the Main Market Square in Krakow. 24-year-old Michał Oksiński drove his car onto the market square, wearing tactical clothes and a helmet, and then started shooting with an automatic weapon at random passers-by. He killed six people and injured 15 people, including two policemen. The seventh fatality is the perpetrator himself, who was shot during an exchange of fire with officers. He died on Monday at 4:30 in the Krakow hospital.