Witold Tomczak

Witold Tomczak ( born April 5, 1957 in Kępno, Poland) is a politician, doctor, Sejm deputy (III and IV cadence ) and since 2004 one of the deputies of the European Parliament.

In 1987 he completed his studies at the Medical Academy in Katowice. He worked as a physician in the community Łęka Opatowska, where he was a member of the 1990-1998 council. 1997-2001 he sat for the Electoral Action Solidarity ( Solidarność Akcja Wyborcza, AWS) on the recommendation of Zjednoczenie Chrześcijańsko - Narodowe in the Sejm. He left the AWS and founded the right grouping Porozumienie Polskie. In the following cadence he was Sejm deputy of the League of Polish Families. In 2004 he moved to the European Parliament, where he served until 2009, the Independence and Democracy Group. His constituency is Wielkopolskie.

Waive his immunity

In 2000, Tomczak damaged in the Warsaw Gallery Zachęta the artwork " La Nona Ora - The Ninth Hour" (1999). It comes from the Italian Maurizio Cattelan and shows a figure of Pope John Paul II, who is hit by a meteorite. At an auction the work in 2008 generated nearly $ 900,000. The exhibition, in which the work was to be seen, had been organized by the Swiss curator Harald Szeemann to their 100th anniversary. Tomczak left after the damage to the statue of an anti-Semitic letter in which he called for the resignation of the gallery director Anda Rottenberg. He called it a " state employees of Jewish origin ." Shortly thereafter, Rottenberg submitted her resignation. Because of Umstoßens of the artwork Tomczak threatens a lawsuit. On 8 July 2008, therefore, his immunity was lifted for the second time. For the first time he lost his immunity in February 2008 because he had insulted police officers in Ostrow Wielkopolski 1999 and may violate traffic laws.