Poland

Polish Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro has condemned a court decision taken by a circuit judge against a young woman who was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for stealing a rainbow-colored bag as a protest against LGBT ideology.

The woman in question was convicted of violent assault and theft, which carries a minimum of a three-year jail sentence. The value of the bag, which in the end was not stolen anyway, was just over €3.

Ziobro said that it was, in fact, the young woman known as Marika who had been the victim of judicial assault that took away her freedom for political and ideological reasons. He added that the case showed a communist mentality was returning to Polish courts by which people were to be locked up for political and ideological reasons.