Open Dialog Foundation received over 27,000. PLN collected by the bailiff from the account of Maciej Wąsik – PAP learned. This is the execution of the court’s verdict, in which the PiS politician was ordered to pay compensation for violating the personal rights of the foundation and its managers, Ludmiła Kozłowska and Bartosz Kramek.
Mariusz Wąsik’s money is in our foundation’s account
– He told PAP Bartosz Kramek from the board of the Open Dialogue Foundation. The organization received a transfer of PLN 27,600 on Thursday. PLN withdrawn by the bailiff from the PiS politician’s account.
This is the implementation of a final court ruling in a lawsuit for violation of personal rights filed against the former deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration in the PiS government, Maciej Wąsik, filed by Bartosz Kramek, Ludmiła Kozłowska and the Open Dialog Foundation founded by them. Activists sued the politician after his statements in 2018-2019 about the activities of the foundation. Wąsik publicly accused activists of criticizing the actions of the then government, including: ties with Russia, hybrid activities and money laundering.
The Court of Appeal upheld this verdict in February of this year. judgment at first instance in which the organization’s claims were recognized. Maciej Wąsik was to publish an apology for spreading “harmful and false information” within 14 days after the verdict became final and pay damages – PLN 10,000 each. PLN for Bartosz Kramek, Ludmiła Kozłowska and the foundation itself – a total of PLN 30,000. zlotys.
Maciej Wąsik did not comply with the verdict, so the foundation’s lawyer represented. On June 18, Dawid Biernat filed a request with the bailiff to initiate and conduct a bailiff’s procedure against the politician.
Bailiff enforcement
The execution was initiated by Aleksandra Rudzka-Natanek, a bailiff at the Warsaw-Żoliborz District Court. At the end of June, PLN 50,000 was withdrawn from Maciej Wąsik’s bank account. PLN, of which PLN 30 thousand PLN was the main amount owed, i.e. compensation, over PLN 11,000. PLN is interest, over PLN 7.6 thousand. PLN – legal costs, PLN 900 – costs of representation in enforcement and less than PLN 5,000. PLN – enforcement costs. The amount, after deducting the costs of enforcement proceedings and legal services, was transferred to the foundation’s account.
In the next step, the foundation plans to force Maciej Wąsik to comply with the remaining part of the verdict, that is, to publish an apology in the media specified by the court. The PiS politician had until March 8 this year to apologize to the activists.
Maciej Wąsik did not do this, so the request for judicial enforcement is now ready and will be submitted to the court
– Bartosz Kramek told PAP. Representative of the foundation advertisement. Dawid Biernat asks the politician to publish an apology within three days after the court verdict becomes final, under penalty of a fine of PLN 5,000. PLN fine for each day of delay.
In justifying the amount of the fine, the lawyer explained that it resulted from the nature of the plaintiffs’ personal rights violated, the duration of the violation and the wide range of recipients of Wąsik’s statements.
Secondly, it should be taken into account that Maciej Wąsik is a politician known throughout Poland and currently a Member of the European Parliament, and enforcing the law against such a person is particularly important from a social point of view in the name of the basic principle of equality of all before the law.
– it is written in the application.
Kramek’s political speech
Bartosz Kramek threatens that the FPS will try to attack members of the previous government, whom he accuses of alleged “political persecution”.
We will also pursue civil and criminal consequences against Mariusz Kamiński and other members of the previous government responsible for political persecution. They were directed against many troublesome activists, judges, rebellious heads of state finance and companies, and entrepreneurs – from the case of fabricating evidence against my wife by the Internal Security Service to the bad faith of the prosecution of Ziobro by the prosecutor’s office. Absurd accusations were received, among others, against: former deputy head of the Polish Financial Supervisory Authority Wojciech Kwaśniak, former head of the CBA Paweł Wojtunik, former president of PKP Jakub Karnowski, LGBT+ activists and leaders of the Women’s Strike, and the prosecutor’s office and the Public Prosecutor’s Office have systematically harassed Judge Waldemar Żurek and independent prosecutor Ewa Wrzosek. The previous government also repressed entrepreneurs – Przemysław Krych, Piotr Osiecki, Maciej Bodnar, Stanisław Han and Tomasz Misiak and Maciej Witucki, who are still waiting for justice.
– Kramek added.
According to him, “post-Soviet Russian practices were used: surveillance, threats, slander, pressure on lawyers and journalists, extortion of corruption, arrests in the mining industry.”
When will Zbigniew Ziobro, Bogdan Święczkowski and their prosecutors and the former deputy head of the CBA, Grzegorz Ocieczek, be on the bench?
– he said.
As you can see, Bartosz Kramek plans to continue his activities targeting people from the former ruling camp.
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