Witold Tomczak

Witold Stanisław Tomczak (born 5 April 1957, in Kępno) is a far right Polish politician, a member of the European Parliament 2004–2009.

Before his political career, Tomczak worked as a physician He graduated from the Medical University of Silesia in Katowice in 1987 and specialized in general medicine.

[citation needed] Tomczak made the headlines in Poland in 2000, when, together with fellow Polish Agreement member Halina Nowina-Konopka, he damaged a sculpture by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan on display in the National Gallery of Art Zachęta in Warsaw.

Entitled La Nona Ora (The Ninth Hour), the sculpture is an effigy of Pope John Paul II in full ceremonial dress being crushed by a meteor.

The report quotes Tomczak as saying that "[e]very person has a right to life and deserves respect and help, including one who – lost and scarred – has given into homosexual tendencies.