Columnist Marek Krol suggested on Republican TV that migrants arriving in Europe should be “chipped” or tattooed with numbers. An excerpt of his statement was published online, sparking an avalanche of criticism.
before that Jan Pietrzak's words caused a wave of indignationwho spoke on this channel about the actions of the German government regarding the reception of illegal migrants.
– Here, I have a cruel joke with these immigrants. They hope the Poles are ready because we have barracks. We have barracks for immigrants in Auschwitz, Majdanek, Treblinka, Štutovo. Here we have many barracks built by the Germans. And that's where we're going to stop these immigrants that the Germans are bringing us illegally, he said.
Boycott the station
IKEA and mBank stop advertising on Telewizja Republika. This is a reaction to the words of Pietrzak and Kroll.
“Thank you for your signal. We have checked with the media house Wavemaker, which is responsible for buying advertising time in the media on our behalf. It turned out that TV Republika was recently in the package of thematic stations offered by Polsat. The package was purchased as a whole, so we were not aware of the offer change. From tomorrow, our ads will no longer be on TV Republika,” he wrote on Wednesday on the Polish profile of the Swedish shopping chain. X website. The post was a reaction to a post by an internet user who asked why the company is funding TV propaganda: racism and xenophobia?
mBank announced a similar boycott decision. In response, some publicists announced their resignation from the Swedish network's services.
Reaction TV Republika
TV Republika program director Michal Rachon spoke about Marek Krol's statement. “We deeply disagree with the statement made by editor Marek Krol on our channel,” he wrote on the X platform.
The same position was expressed on social media by Tomas Sakievich, the editor-in-chief of the Republic of Television.
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