Request for the waiver of the immunity of Grzegorz Braun

The European Parliament decided to waive the immunity of Grzegorz Braun.

By letter dated 16 July 2025, the Prosecutor General of Poland has transmitted a request from the Regional Public Prosecutor of Warsaw-Praga in Warsaw for the waiver of the immunity of Grzegorz Braun, Member of the European Parliament elected in Poland, in connection with several alleged offences that occurred in 2025.

According to the Parliament report, these alleged offences concern:

- a theft of the Ukrainian flag that was displayed publicly on the balcony of the Biała Podlaska City Hall building;

- a theft of the EU flag that was displayed in the lobby of the Ministry of Industry (Ministerstwo Przemysłu);

- destruction of 10 coloured boards that made up an exhibition dedicated to LGBTQ+ people in the main lobby of the Polich Parliament, the Sejm.

- defamation that the yellow paper daffodils distributed each year in Warsaw to mark the anniversary of the 1943 Jewish Ghetto Uprising against German Nazi rule are symbols of shame.

Grzegorz Braun was elected to the European Parliament in the European elections of June 2024 and therefore was a Member of the European Parliament at the time of the alleged offences.

Parliament considers that the alleged offence does not constitute an opinion or vote cast by Grzegorz Braun in the exercise of his official duties within the meaning of Article 8 of Protocol No. 7 on the privileges and immunities of the European Union. Furthermore, it found no evidence to suggest that the intention underlying the legal proceedings in question is to undermine Grzegorz Braun’s political activity as a Member of the European Parliament.