Woman arrested in Poland over posters of Virgin Mary with rainbow halo

Police accuse 51-year-old Płock woman of ‘profanation’ of revered religious image

A woman has been arrested on suspicion of offending religious sentiment, after posters bearing an image of the Virgin Mary with her halo painted in the colours of the rainbow flag appeared in the city of Płock in central Poland.

The Polish interior minister, Joachim Brudziński, announced on Twitter on Monday that a person had been arrested for “carrying out a profanation of the Virgin Mary of Częstochowa”.

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