The Polish Minister of Education announced Tuesday evening that he had requested an investigation to verify whether the former Ukrainian fighter who fought for the Nazis, honored in the Canadian Parliament, did not commit crimes in Poland, with a view to his possible extradition.
“In view of the scandalous events that took place in the Canadian parliament, where a member of the Nazi criminal group SS Galician was honored in the presence of President Zelensky, I have taken steps towards the possible extradition of this man to Poland,” wrote Przemyslaw Czarnek on X (former Twitter).
In a letter also published on not wanted for crimes against the Polish people and Poles of Jewish origin.”
“The characteristics of these crimes constitute the basis for requesting his extradition to Canada,” he added in this letter.
During Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to Ottawa on Friday, the Speaker of the House of Commons, Anthony Rota, applauded Yaroslav Hunka, a 98-year-old former Ukrainian volunteer accused of having fought in the SS, a decision which provoked a real scandal.
Following this affair, Mr. Rota resigned from his position on Monday.
According to the Canadian Jewish community advocacy group, Friends of the Simon Wiesenthal Center (FSWC), Mr. Hunka served in the 14e Waffen Grenadier division of the SS, a Nazi military unit whose crimes against humanity during the Holocaust are well documented.
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