A radical Catholic activist who led a campaign to erect hundreds of crosses near the site of the Auschwitz death camp was released from jail Friday, a day after Pope John Paul II ended his pilgrimage to Poland. Kazimierz Switon was arrested in late May for placing explosives near the crosses in an unsuccessful attempt to prevent their removal. He was freed after a regional court overturned a lower court’s ruling that he could be detained pending trial.
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