Witold Tomczak
Witold Stanisław Tomczak (born April 5, 1957 in Kępno , Poland ) is a politician , doctor , member of the Sejm (3rd and 4th cadence) and from 2004 to 2009 member of the European Parliament .
In 1987 he graduated from the Medical Academy in Katowice . He worked as a doctor in the Łęka Opatowska municipality , where he was a member of the municipal council from 1990-1998. 1997-2001 he sat for the electoral campaign Solidarity ( Akcja Wyborcza Solidarność , AWS) on the recommendation of Zjednoczenie Chrześcijańsko-Narodowe in the Sejm. He left the AWS and founded the right-wing group Porozumienie Polskie. In the following cadence he was a member of the Sejm in the League of Polish Families . In 2004 he moved to the European Parliament, where he was a member of the Independence and Democracy Group until 2009 . His constituency is Wielkopolskie .
Lifting of his immunity
In 2000 Tomczak damaged the artwork “La Nona Ora - The Ninth Hour” (1999) in the Zachęta Gallery in Warsaw . It was made by the Italian Maurizio Cattelan and shows a figure of Pope John Paul II who is hit by a meteorite. The work fetched nearly $ 900,000 at auction in 2008. The exhibition in which the work could be seen was organized by the Swiss curator Harald Szeemann on the occasion of its 100th anniversary. After the damage to the statue, Tomczak left an anti-Semitic letter in which he demanded the resignation of the gallery director Anda Rottenberg . He called her a "state employee of Jewish origin". Shortly thereafter, Rottenberg submitted her resignation. Tomczak faces a lawsuit over knocking over the work of art. On July 8, 2008, his immunity was therefore lifted for the second time. He lost his immunity for the first time in February 2008 for insulting police officers in Ostrów Wielkopolski in 1999 and violating the traffic regulations.
Web links
- Entry on Witold Tomczak in the Members' database of the European Parliament
Footnotes
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Tomczak, Witold |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Tomczak, Witold Stanisław (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish politician, member of the Sejm, MEP and doctor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 5th 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kępno , Poland |