Vaccine Mandate Unleashes a Mob in a Small Polish Town
The mayor of a former mining community in Poland received death threats and was compared to a Nazi death camp doctor after trying to make coronavirus shots obligatory for adults.
City Hall in Walbrzych. The mayor, Dr. Roman Szelemej, said that his attempt to mandate inoculations had “made this small point on the map of Poland a place for all the skeptics of science and reality to focus on.”Credit...Maciek Nabrdalik for The New York Times
May 27, 2021, 10:47 a.m. ET
WALBRZYCH, Poland — The mayor, a heart surgeon, had just finished overnight hospital duty when he received alarming news: a mob of protesters, some dressed in military camouflage, had gathered outside his home, screaming abuse through bullhorns and waving banners comparing him to Josef Mengele, the Nazi death camp physician.