11/01/2024, 06:13
“If the information is confirmed, I welcome it, because it means saving taxpayers a lot of money,” says Rafal Ziemkiewicz happily (screen: Twitter/Rzeczpospolita)
The findings of “Rzeczpospolita” indicate that President Duda allegedly pardoned journalists Magdalena Ogorek and Rafal Ziemkiewicz before Christmas. The latter publicist admitted in an interview with the newspaper that both of them appealed to the president for pardon.
This refers to a case from several years ago, when Magdalena Ogorek and Rafal Ziemkiewicz were charged for their statements in the “W Tye Vision” program in February 2019. Ziemkiewicz said on air that patients of left-wing activist Elżbieta Podleszna behave “as if they have been intelligently brainwashed”. Magdalena Ogorek added that there might be “manipulation of the human psyche.” Although the defamation case was initially dismissed, the court accepted Podleszna's appeal. In May last year, both journalists were fined 10,000 GEL. zloty.
Before Christmas, the President's Chancellery issued a statement without naming the pardoned persons. It follows that on December 18 the President pardoned the fines and ordered the conviction to be overturned. “The argument states that the President “considered the principles of justice and the rationality of criminal repression in deciding to use the pardon power. Also the random nature of the convicts' actions” – reports “Rzeczpospolita”.
The case files of Ogorek and Ziemkiewicz contain the same legal classification of the act as that given in the statement regarding pardoned persons: Art. Joke in connection with paragraph 212 § 1 of the Civil Code. 212 § 2 of the Criminal Code, i.e. defamation through mass media.
“The type of punishment is also correct, i.e. a fine, and in the notification it is assumed that both were convicted for the same act. This allows us to state with a very high probability that the law of grace applies to Ogorek and Ziemkiewicz”, – we read in the text of “RZ”. “If the information is confirmed, I welcome it, because it means saving taxpayers a lot of money,” Rafal Ziemkevich responded.
(MZD, 11/01/2024)
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