On his Facebook account, Dr Krzysztof Klementowski has referred to a young black woman as a “little monkey” and suggested that a city with Muslim inhabitants should be “fenced off with barbed wire fence”. Dr Klementowski is the head of the Psychiatric Department of the Milicz Medical Centre. His public views are to be reviewed by the Ethics Commission of the Lower Silesia Medical Council. The psychiatrist has also shared on his Facebook profile a news suggesting that Google’s algorithms allegedly do not make a distinction between black people and apes. “LOL” – Klementowski commented.

Paula Sawicka, Chair of the Program Board of the Open Republic Association says: It is unbelievable that an educated person manifests such a hopelessly low level of knowledge, culture and sensitivity. And we are talking here about a doctor of psychiatry practicing prevention and psychological education, someone who should represent a higher than average level of empathy. This story also tell us something sad about our society, whose apathy only encourages such individuals. We tend to label such cases as marginal, but in this case, the margin manifest itself on surprising levels of our society and damages it, slowly but surely becoming the new “normal”.