The plaque of Walla was destroyed. The police revealed who was the murderer

“The Wora police, through multi-person and large-scale operational reconnaissance activities, detained a person suspected of insulting the monument yesterday. She is a 76-year-old resident of the area.. The activity is in progress” Capital announced on the X platform police.

The destroyed plaque designed by Karol Tchorek is located on ul. Wolska at the intersection with ul. Płocka. It commemorates the victims of mass executionsIt was carried out by the Germans in the former Ursus factory. This is one of the many commemorative plaques In Warsaw Commemorates the sites of battles and executions of World War II.

“What do you think of doing something like this?”

He reported the destruction of the plaque Krzysztof Strzałkowski Mayor of the Wola District. “This is what vandals did to the Wola Holocaust Memorial last night. What kind of thinking must people have in order to do something like this at a moment like this? How barbaric and shameful,” Strzakovsky wrote on the X platform.

He posted a photo of the damaged board under his entry.I won’t let this goIt works on site police. I hope that the criminals will be identified and convicted as soon as possible. Today, after consultation with the police, we will try to restore the plaque, “Strzakovsky stressed. He added that this is one of the very important memorial sites. “The Vora district has been in contact with the police, who are at the site. The search for the perpetrators is ongoing,” said the Vora mayor.

Rafał Trzaskowski: The board has been cleared

The president later commented on the matter Warsaw Rafal Trzaskowski, The WHO reported that a memorial site was damaged by vandals in the evening after the celebrations. He added that the historical plaque still remained Cleaned by a professional company“Yesterday, Warsaw residents walked the streets of Wola to pay tribute to the thousands of civilian victims killed by the Germans. In the evening, after the celebrations, one of the memorial sites was damaged by vandals. As soon as the police ended the event, the historic plaque was cleaned by a professional company. Whoever committed this shameful act must be held accountable,” Trzaskowski wrote on the X platform.

Sgt. Małgorzata Staniszewska of the Wola Police Headquarters informed that the police were collecting evidence at the scene of the incident and looking for witnesses. She added that the officer’s activities were carried out in accordance with Art. 261 of the Criminal Code, i.e. insulting a plaque. He was threatened for this Fines or restriction of freedom.

Massacre of the inhabitants of the capital, Vola

Massacre of the inhabitants of the capital, Vola The duration was from August 5 to 7, 1944. Mass executions Deaths – according to various estimates – 400,000 to 60,000 regional residentsPeople were shot and the bodies of the dead were burned. The mass killings ended on August 7, but to a lesser extent until General Erich von der München-Zelewski, who was in charge of the operation to suppress the Warsaw Uprising, prohibited the murder of civilians on August 12.

Postwar None of the perpetrators of this crime have been held accountableFor many years, the crimes committed in Vola were not adequately commemorated. It was not until 2004 that a monument to the victims of the Vola massacre was unveiled in the square at the intersection of Unity Avenue and Leszno Street, known as the “Monument to the Fifty Thousand”. In 2010, the Council Warsaw August 5th was designated as the Day of Remembrance for the Residents of Wola.