Protester in flag-burning outrage

3rd September 2010

The flag was eventually covered in offensive words

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A court has handed down a six-month suspended sentence to a 20-year-old woman for trying to burn the national flag and covering it with offensive words.

Earlier the Mazowsze regional court had found the woman, known only as Monika P. owing to reporting restrictions, guilty of insulting and destroying the Polish flag after hearing about her attempt to immolate the national symbol on April 12.

Judge Lidia Hojenska said that the woman’s guilt had never been in doubt, but the accused was acquitted of insulting the president.

During the trial Monika P. admitted that she had indeed tried to set fire to the flag, which had been put out on a building in mourning for the victims of the Ap ...

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