A 30-year-old woman was tidying up gravestones at a cemetery. She faces five years in prison.

A Gazeta Wyborcza interviewee points out that the graves in Łogoszów (Lower Silesia) haven't been tidied up for 80 years. A photojournalist who visited the site found the graves almost completely covered in ivy.

The 30-year-old wanted to clean them. It wasn't an easy task—one of the graves she worked hard to restore to satisfactory condition (and not alone) only started looking good after eight hours.

Before the work began, the Mazovian resident went to the local parish priest. The priest accompanied her to the site, and the 30-year-old woman brought in a crew. The renovation process began. According to the woman, the priest "made no comment," and she interpreted his silence as consent to begin the work. This also included cutting down trees, which she requested from the priest. However, due to his lack of response, she decided to hire a crew to remove them (the trees were growing in the graves, damaging their structures).

The priest suddenly changed his mind. "He started slandering me."

According to the 30-year-old, the priest verbally consented to the project, but then "repudiated his positive attitude." "He saw us cleaning up, even borrowed the felling equipment. And then he started badmouthing me. He told people that 'some sectarian woman from Warsaw came and is bossing around,'" claims a woman interviewed by the Wrocław branch of the Gazeta Wyborcza daily.

Earlier this year – in February – a priest showed up at the cemetery, accompanied by the parish council and police. The officers conducted their investigation for several hours – the woman was allegedly "taken in handcuffs" to a police car. She was taken to a police station for 24 hours. "I was charged with destruction of property and theft because I allegedly took the trees to my home [suspects of alleged harm to the Orthodox parish arose – ed.]. The priest and the council also criticized me for not having built a fence some 40 years ago. It's hard for me to have done that, since I wasn't even born at the time," she recounts.

Gazeta Wyborcza (GW) determined that the case could end with a court ruling if the priest doesn't withdraw the private prosecution. According to the Penal Code, the 30-year-old faces up to five years in prison. In the meantime, however, the classification of the offense has been changed to property damage (not destruction). "I bought the felling equipment myself and paid the crew. I don't want any reimbursement—it's my initiative. If I were the priest, I'd be happy for someone to do this work for me," says the Mazovia resident.

A 30-year-old woman reported a possible crime committed by a clergyman

She also filed her own report with the prosecutor's office regarding the priest's suspected crime, specifically the failure to take care of the memorial site.

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