Some kind of firecracker was also launched from the nearby parking lot, according to a spokesman for the Auschwitz site, which is now a state museum. Officials in the southern Polish city of Oswiecim didn’t immediately comment on a motive for the bizarre action. A museum statement criticized the decision to protest there, declaring that using the symbol of Auschwitz to draw attention “is outrageous and unacceptable. It is disrespectful to the memory of all the victims of the German Nazi Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp.”A statement regarding an incident at the site of the Memorial today. pic.twitter.com/UxBM69r79W — Auschwitz Memorial (@AuschwitzMuseum) March 24, 2017

Source: Huffington Post March 25, 2017 00:38 UTC