Police were evicted from a church in Calgary over Easter weekend, with a pastor calling them “Nazis” after responding to a call related to COVID-19 issues.
Pastor Artur Pawlowski of The Fortress (Cave) Branch of the Adullam Branch, Canada, recorded a video Saturday calling local authorities ‘Nazis’, ‘Gestapo’ and ‘Communists’ demanding that they leave the church and not would return unless they had an order.
“I grew up under communism and my grandparents lived under the Nazis,” said Pawlowski. “My family escaped the communists in Poland and went first to Greece and then to Canada to get out of there. Millions of Jewish people have been murdered in Poland, including Auschwitz. “
Pawlowski told the Toronto Sun that he drew the line with guns in his church.
“This is a place for worship and not a place for weapons,” he said. “There are people praying here. They scared the children. This was Passover. This is Easter.”
Calgary police said there was “concern” that Pawlowski and his council “were not complying with the government’s COVID-19 public health orders.”
“The organizer of the meeting was not cooperative with the health inspector and repeatedly raised his voice to ask all parties to leave the premises, which they did peacefully about a minute after entering,” Calgary police said in a statement. according to the sun.
“At that time, no tickets were issued and it is up to our partner authorities to determine whether further enforcement action will be taken in response to this situation.”
Pawlowski has received numerous tickets during the COVID-19 pandemic, the paper reported.