Police were expelled from a church in Calgary over Easter weekend, with a pastor calling them “Nazis” after responding to a call regarding COVID-19 concerns.
Pastor Artur Pawlowski, from The Fortress (Cave) of Adullam, Canada, recorded a video on Saturday in which he called local authorities “Nazis”, “Gestapo” and “Communists” while demanding that they leave the church and not return unless they had a warrant.
“I grew up under communism and my grandparents lived under the Nazis,” said Pawlowski. “My family escaped from the Communists in Poland and went first to Greece and then to Canada to escape from it. Millions of Jews were murdered in Poland, including at Auschwitz. “
Pawlowski told the Toronto Sun that he drew the line with the guns at his church.
“This is a place for worship and not for weapons,” he said. “We have people praying here. They were scaring the children. It was Easter. It is Easter.”
The Calgary Police said there was “concern” that Pawlowski and his congregation “were not adhering to the government’s public health orders COVID-19”.
“The organizer of the meeting did not cooperate with the health inspector and repeatedly raised his voice asking all parties to leave the premises, which they did approximately one minute after entering and peacefully,” said the Calgary Police in a statement. , according to the sun.
“No ticket has been issued at the moment and it will be up to our partner agencies to determine the subsequent enforcement activity in response to this situation.”
Pawlowski received several tickets during the COVID-19 pandemic, the newspaper reported.