A Canadian pastor throws some policemen out of his church: “Nazis are not welcome”

06/04/2021 – 13:32 Updated: 04/06/2021 – 13:33

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Artur Pawlowski is a pastor at Calgary’s Street Church in Alberta, Canada, who greeted city officials with shouting. The religious, who has shared on his social networks the video that he himself recorded what happenedHe shouted to the police who appeared in his temple that “the Nazis are not welcome here.”

The brawl, which took place this Saturday, April 3, has not taken long to go viral. Pawlowski was officiating an Easter service in a building known as the ‘Fortress of Adullam’ when city officials and officials arrived. In the images it can be seen that several agents stop on the stairs of the building while the parish priest orders them “leave the property immediately”.

In addition to showing his dissatisfaction with the presence of the police, the priest did not seem very receptive to an explanation: “I don’t want to hear anything, I don’t care what you have to say.” Seeing that they were still in the church, Pawlowski reproached the agents who could come back when had a search warrant and he kept shouting: “Get off my property, Nazis. The Gestapo can’t come in here.”

Applauded on social media

The pastor, famous for the organization of religious rites in the open air and his opposition to homosexuality and abortion, shared on his social networks the video in which the police interrupt “the most sacred party, the celebration of Easter “.

A statement from the Calgary Police, referred to in turn Daily Mail, explains that the agents were sent to ensure compliance with sanitary measures during service. His concern was that “the people who attended did not comply with the government’s public health orders that are in force to guarantee everyone’s safety,” the document can read. According to the agents, “the organizer of the meeting did not cooperate.”

Although none of the attendees were fined, the police do not rule out doing so in the future. Churches in the area can hold celebrations with an attendance that does not exceed 15%. In addition, parishioners should wear a mask and maintain social distance.

“Off my property, Nazis. The Gestapo cannot enter here”

Pawlowski has been accused on more than one occasion of violating Alberta’s Public Health law that regulates restrictions stemming from the coronavirus. However, the pastor has been praised on social networks for this latest event. And it is that, many consider that the limitations resulting from the pandemic directly interfere with their right to religious worship.

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