Grzegorz Braun is already being prosecuted over earlier remarks denying Nazi gas chambers. A European Parliament committee has backed waiving the parliamentary immunity of far-right Polish MEP Grzegorz Braun in a fresh Holocaust-denial case, months after lawmakers waived his immunity in a separate case involving his denial of the existence of Nazi gas chambers. The European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee, known as JURI, voted on Monday to recommend waiving Braun’s immunity. The recommendation will now go before the full European Parliament for a final vote during its plenary session in Strasbourg next week. The latest case concerns remarks Braun made during a livestreamed discussion in September 2025. Prosecutors say he publicly and contrary to the facts denied that Nazi Germany carried out genocidal killings using gas chambers at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp in occupied southern Poland and at Majdanek in the eastern city of Lublin. Poland’s prosecutor general submitted a request to the European Parliament in February seeking permission to prosecute Braun over the remarks. Holocaust-denial is particularly sensitive in Poland, where Nazi Germany established its largest concentration and extermination camps during its occupation of the country and murdered millions of Jews, Poles and other victims. Publicly denying Nazi crimes, including genocide, is punishable in Poland by a fine or up to three years in prison. No stranger to controversy Braun, leader of the ultra-nationalist Confederation of the Polish Crown party, is a controversial figure known for anti-EU, nationalist and antisemitic rhetoric. He is already facing prosecution over a separate set of Holocaust-denial remarks. The European Parliament waived his immunity in March, allowing Polish prosecutors to pursue that case. Prosecutors charged Braun in August with two counts of publicly denying Nazi genocide over statements he made during interviews on Radio Wnet and YouTube in July 2025. In one of the interviews, Braun said: “Auschwitz with gas chambers is, unfortunately, a fake.” Braun pleaded not guilty and declined to give a statement, saying he would do so after receiving the written justification for the charges. The latest immunity proceedings concern separate remarks made later, in September 2025. Under European Parliament rules, immunity is waived in relation to specific alleged offenses, meaning a new request is required for separate offenses. Braun is also embroiled in other legal proceedings, including one over an incident in December 2023, when he used a fire extinguisher to put out Hanukkah candles in the Polish parliament. The far-right leader has been a member of the European Parliament since 2024.
