Grzegorz Braun and Janusz Waluś were spotted at the stadium during Thursday’s Conference League clash with Sparta Prague, prompting Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski to post a photo declaring it a step from antisemitism to murder.
BRAUN AND WALUŚ AT LEGIA GAME
Polish European Parliamentarian Grzegorz Braun and former South African militant Janusz Waluś attended Legia Warsaw’s stadium on Thursday night for the UEFA Conference League match between Legia Warsaw and Sparta Prague. Braun posted on X, “We were polite today – in the family sector (children out of frame).” Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski simultaneously posted a photo of the two men and commented that “From antisemitism to murder is one step.”
WHO IS JANUŻ WALUŚ?
Janusz Waluś was born in Zakopane, Poland. In the 1980s he emigrated to Africa, where he ran a glassworks with his family and later worked as a driver. He acquired South African citizenship and became active in far‑right, racist organizations. On April 10, 1993, he shot and killed a leader of the communist party in South Africa. He was initially sentenced to death, a sentence later commuted to life imprisonment. In 2017 he renounced his South African citizenship. In December 2024 Waluś returned to Poland, accompanied by Braun.
CHARGES AGAINST BRAUN
In late July the Warsaw District Prosecutor’s Office filed an indictment against Grzegorz Braun. He is accused of violating bodily integrity and insulting the Director of the National Institute of Cardiology, damaging a Christmas tree with ornaments valued at 1.4 thousand PLN belonging to the Polish Judges Association “Iustitia” and the Judges Association “Themis,” damaging public address and electronic equipment worth about 2.5 thousand PLN belonging to the German Historical Institute, refusing to leave the institute’s premises against the director’s request, publicly insulting a group of people with a religious background and a religious object (extinguishing a Hanukkah candle with a fire extinguisher), insulting religious feelings, and violating the bodily integrity of a person intervening at the time.
