Justice Minister and Attorney General Zbigniew Ziobro responded to the untrue claims of the organization Reporters without Borders about the attack on the driver of the pro-life truck and TVN’s lack of reaction to this event.
Hypocrisy without limits! It is sad to see how quickly the masks fall from those who call themselves defenders of democracy and freedom of expression. The organization Reporters Without Borders attacked me, claiming that my defense of a battered and beaten man and pointing out the TVN station for the lack of journalistic objectivity, i.e. the deliberate concealment of the scandal, “the execution of the political agenda” is.
– Zbigniew Ziobro, the Minister of Justice, writes in a statement on the website of the Ministry of Justice.
Well, dear “reporters without borders”, as you call yourself, the Prosecutor General in Poland will always be on the side of the victims. As was the case with the attacked pro-life truck driver
assures Ziobro.
Defense of the organization for the elect?
That’s what I would expect from an organization like yours. If an LGBT representative is attacked and beaten, and the courts guarantee impunity for the perpetrators, will you also silence this issue?
asks the Minister of Justice.
And if a representative of a national minority is beaten, do you also encourage the media to remain silent? Watch this video and think what a real “reporter without borders” would do with it…
– concludes Zbigniew Ziobro.
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Attack on the van
At the end of July, the head of the Ministry of Justice organized a press conference where he announced that the Warsaw court had upheld the decision to drop the case of the attack on the driver of the Pro-Prawo do van. Życia Foundation. Ziobro pointed out that the stoppage of this case was a scandal. – This is not the application of the law by the judge, this is the application of political and party views – he ruled at the time.
The attack on the truck driver of the Pro-Prawo do Życia Foundation took place on January 26, 2022 in the Wilanów district of Warsaw. Video of the incident shared online shows a man throwing a hard object at the door of a truck that was on the road waiting for the green light. After a while, the assailant opened the van door, wrenched the driver free and tried to snatch the mobile phone from his hand. The perpetrator also hit the activist with the door of the vehicle.
The case went to the public prosecutor’s office, which filed charges against the man. According to the prosecutor’s office, Piotr Sz. “using force by pulling arm, neck and head, forced to stop the information campaign.” In April this year The District Court in Warsaw stopped proceedings in this case, arguing that the decision caused negligible social damage. The public prosecutor’s office appealed against this decision. As reported by Ziobro, on July 28, the District Court in Warsaw upheld the decision to drop the case.
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Source: wPolityce