The investigative department of the Institute of National Remembrance - Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against the Polish People has launched an investigation after provocative far-right MEP Grzegorz Brown denied that the Nazis used gas chambers at the Auschwitz death camp during World War II, the Polish Press Agency (PAP) reported, BTA reported.
Brown said in a radio interview last week that "ritual murders are a fact, but Auschwitz with its gas chambers is unfortunately a fake".
Yesterday, a prosecutor from the District Commission for the Investigation of Crimes against the Polish People in the southern city of Krakow decided to launch an investigation into "the public and controversial denial of the facts by MEP Brown … of genocide committed between 1941 and 1944 by representatives of the Third Reich in the German Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau".
The sentence that Brown could receive ranges from a fine to 3 years in prison.