A Polish Catholic priest with a history of antisemitic and islamophobic statements was detained at Stansted airport on Saturday, before being deported from the country.
Jacek Miedlar had flown to the UK specifically to address a Britain First rally in the Shropshire town of Telford.
Jayda Fransen, the deputy leader of the far-right group, had advertised his attendance in a video released on February 19, in which she referred to Miedlar as a “Polish patriot”, and called for supporters to “come and stand with us against Muslim grooming gangs.”
Miedlar, a Polish nationalist, has reportedly been suspended by his local Catholic church for his nationalistic sermons. He has repeatedly denied Polish antisemitism or the role which Poland played in the Holocaust, accusing Jews of “anti-Polish narrative building” as part of a “Holocaust industry”.
