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The clergy, the Archbishop Emeritus of Kaunas Lionginas Virbalas SJ and the priest Algirdas Toliatas, spoke succinctly about the M.AM.A awards that were held over the weekend and caused storms in society.
“When compared … 2021. January. The Episcopal Conference of Lithuania announced that from January 11. It will renew public worship with believers. She promises that in the church one person will have at least 10 square meters, will remain a distance of two meters between people, they will have to wear masks. Reaction: The Church’s decision to celebrate worship is called absurd. Saugirdas Vaitulionis: “The Church has shown once again that it has no morals.” Aistis Mickevičius: “In general, these proposals seem strange on their part, when they exceed the reality of the situation and the resolutions of the Government.” Etc. etc. Eimutis Kvoščiauskas, Vaidotas Baumila, Andrius Užkalnis and others. March 2021 “, wrote L. Virbalas. on the social network, sharing a text link announcing that the MAMA jubilee awards had been destroyed.
Priest A. Toliatas also shared this statement by L. Virbal on social media. “A precise observation of the archbishop. Some people, who until very recently publicly and loudly resented the Church’s desire to open the door to the faithful, fell into a dubious situation. Of course, now is such a difficult time that it is easy to make one or another decision that is not the best, even with the best wishes. Especially now that we are tired of quarantine, it is very important that we learn to respond and communicate with respect. Express your opinion or comments without humiliating, changing, or making fun of others. The mission is not easy, but possible. If we really want it, ”the priest wrote.
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Some people, who until very recently publicly and loudly resented the Church’s desire to open the door to the faithful, found themselves in a dubious situation.
The kauno.diena.lt portal announced that some famous people also expressed their outrage by joining the heated discussions. Many have wondered why the pandemic prevents ordinary people from seeing relatives in other cities or organizing, for example, birthday parties, but it is possible to celebrate MAMA awards and attend them with a negative COVID-19 test.
“I see Soc. networks that only Breasts, others At the crosses. And have they already allowed events in Lithuania? Somehow I didn’t hear it. PS: I’m not sorry, it’s interesting anyway, “wrote actor and perfume creator Aistis Mickevičius.
We remind you that the police are investigating the situation regarding the MAMA awards that took place on Saturday night and caused public outrage.
“Due to the MAMA awards event held in Kaunas, Žalgiris Arena, the Kaunas Police have started to clarify the circumstances, all the collected material will be evaluated and decisions will be made. Thank you all for your citizenship, ”Lithuanian police wrote on Facebook over the weekend.
Ramūnas Matonis, Chief of the Police Department’s Communications Division, said his Kaunas police received around 30 reports of possible rapes at the event on Saturday.
“All the circumstances will be reviewed and it will be determined what violations there were, who violated them, and then there will be different decisions,” R. Matonis told BNS.
On Sunday, R. Matonis told LRT Lietuvos Diena radio show that the awards are treated like a television broadcast.
“As this is a television broadcast, we do not need any separate permission here,” said a Police Department spokesman.
According to him, the organizers assured that they will comply with the quarantine requirements. Still, the reality seemed to go beyond promises.
“As we will see later, when the photos and videos appeared in the public space, not all the participants really met the requirements, at least in our opinion,” said R. Matonis.
According to the interlocutor, the police will find out if all quarantine restrictions have been met and if all prize participants who went to Kaunas from other parts of Lithuania have legally crossed municipal boundaries.
On Monday morning, R. Matonis told the portal kauno.diena.lt that there is still no new information about this event. “So far nothing has changed overnight,” said R. Matonis. – I believe that today the administrative procedures will begin and everything will go according to the order, as it should be. You will receive the material this morning and you will do everything according to the procedures, we are investigating all the events according to the legislation, not according to the agitation ”.
In the Žalgiris arena, the event took place without spectators, its organizers announced that all participants had been tested for COVID-19 before the event, but there was outrage in the public sphere that the quarantine rules were not followed. Some politicians called the event a “plague party.”
The organizer of the event, the president of the association “Music Awards of the Year”, Martynas Tyla, did not comment on the situation over the weekend and Monday morning. After contacting Tyla on Monday morning, he said he would distribute a press release at noon and then be able to answer questions.
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