The Center for Monitoring Racist and Xenophobic Behavior has submitted a report to the public prosecutor’s office following the statement of satirist Jan Pietrzak. Justice Minister Adam Bodnar in turn announced that he was “asking” National Prosecutor Dariusz Barski to handle the case.
What did Jan Pietrzak say?
On Sunday, December 31, satirist and publicist Jan Pietrzak said on Telewizja Republika:
He is playing a cruel joke on these immigrants. They count on the Poles to be prepared, because we have barracks. We have barracks for immigrants in Auschwitz, Majdanek, Treblinka, Sztutowo. We have many barracks built here by the Germans. And there we will stop these immigrants, who have been illegally forced into our territory by the Germans. The people who escape to a better world are not illegal. The authorities who let them in are illegal. So the Germans are illegal; their slogan of welcoming the newcomers was illegal, outside the treaty and against any law. This is illegal German activity. We have to be sensitive to this in the coming year, because it is starting to go to our heads and it irritates me.
Well, that’s a very strong joke indeed
– said presenter Katarzyna Gójska.
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Bodnar takes the floor
In a post on social media, Attorney General Adam Bodnar announced that he had instructed the national prosecutor to address the issue of the satirist’s words and launch an investigation.
I have asked National Prosecutor Dariusz Barski @PK_GOV_PL to address the issue of Jan Pietrzak’s statement on @RepublikaTV and start an investigation.
OMZRiK reports this to the public prosecutor’s office
The Center for Monitoring Racist and Xenophobic Behavior announced that it has submitted a report to the Public Prosecution Service following the statement of satirist Jan Pietrzak.
We have reported a crime committed by Pietrzak and TV Republika. We informed the Warsaw Public Prosecutor’s Office about the promotion of Nazism and racist threats spread by Pietrzak
– the Center for Monitoring Racist and Xenophobic Behavior reported on the X platform.
When asked by PAP, OMZRiK president Konrad Dulkowski said the notice was first submitted by email and will most likely be submitted by post tomorrow. He added that it involves “committing the crime of public incitement to hatred because of ethnic, racial or national origin.”
The president of OMZRiK added that it was about Jan Pietrzak’s statement on Telewizja Republika, “in which he declared – a statement that is quite popular among racists – that barracks in Auschwitz, Majdanek and other concentration camps are ready to receive immigrants.”
We simply consider it as – on the one hand – the promotion of a totalitarian state system, and on the other hand – incitement to hatred towards persons, etc., i.e. as a crime within the meaning of Art. 256 of the Criminal Code
– said Dulkowski.
OMZRiK also announced that it would file a complaint with the National Broadcasting Council against Telewizja Republika.
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Source: wPolityce