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They did not exercise due care for order and the maintenance of the solemnity.

The governor of Małopolska Province ordered the War Victims Association of Bielsko-Biała to vacate the Gravel Pit. The order, with a clause calling for immediate execution, was issued on the basis of the May 7, 1999 Polish law on the protection of the sites of Nazi death camps. The War Victims Association leased the Gravel Pit from the Discalced Carmelite Sisters Convent in Oświęcim on June 8, 1993.

The order specifies that the War Victims Association did not exercise due care for order and the maintenance of the solemnity and proper character of the Gravel Pit site, which lies within the area of the Martyrdom Memorial in Oświęcim. The governor also noted that activities constituting a potential threat to human life and health, including the alleged placing of explosives at the site by Kazimierz Świtoń as a protest in defense of the so-called "papal cross" on May 27, 1999, were carried out at the Gravel Pit.