Poland’s new pro-EU prime minister, Donald Tusk, was sworn in today before the country’s president, in a power transfer that marks a sea change after eight years of nationalist rule.

While the EU hailed the day, the internet is doing the rounds of the other side of the Polish parliament: the move by far-right Confederation MP Grzegorz Braun, who used a fire extinguisher to extinguish the Jewish menorah he had lit for Hanukkah. , with a fire extinguisher, in the lobby of the Polish parliament.

Brown then entered the chamber, took the podium and called the menorah “satanic”, saying it had “restored normalcy” and left parliament after shaking hands with other far-right MPs.

Donald Tusk condemned the action of the far-right MP saying: “something unacceptable happened, which should never happen again. Its a shame”.

For his part, the speaker of the parliament, Simon Holovnia, excluded Brown from the meeting and said he would inform the prosecutors. “There will be no tolerance for racism, xenophobia, anti-Semitism (…) as long as I am president of the parliament,” he stressed.