Minister Adam Bodnar announced on Monday, January 1st that he was going to take drastic measures against Jan Pietrzak, and he did. The Warsaw District Prosecutor's Office started an investigation into the “Repubblica” TV station due to the satirist's scandalous speech.
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The Prosecutor's Office started an investigation against Jan Pietrzak
Let's remember exactly what these words are. Jan Pietrzak He was a guest of the Republic TV program. In a conversation with Katarzyna Gójska, he commented on “German rule in Poland”, that is, he noted that Germany influences Poland's migration policy.
At one point, the 86-year-old satirist said he also had a “brutal joke” about immigrants. Then scandalous words were said about Auschwitz.
– They (Germans – ed.) believe that the Poles are ready because we have barracks. We have barracks for immigrants in Auschwitz, Majdanek, Treblinka, Stutthof. Here we have many barracks built by the Germans. There we will find the immigrants the Germans are forcing us to illegally, he said.
Minister of Justice Adam Bodnar On January 1, he announced that he had asked National Prosecutor Dariusz Barski to review Jan Pietrzak's scandalous statement and launch an investigation into the matter. And so it happened.
The district prosecutor's office started the investigation under Article 257 Criminal Code, which talks about: “public insult of a group of people because of national and ethnic affiliation”. This is a punishable crime Imprisonment for up to 3 years.
No one has been charged in this case yet.
Pietrzak explains himself
He was also quick to react to Pietrzak's words Center for Monitoring Racist and Xenophobic Behavior and the Auschwitz Museum. On the day the scandalous words were uttered, OMZRiK announced that it would submit a report to the Warsaw District Prosecutor's Office “about Pietrzak's propaganda of Nazism and racist threats.” A complaint was also filed with the National Broadcasting Council Television Republic.
The Auschwitz Museum added a post to its profile on the X website calling for people not to remember the fate of those who died in the German camps.
“The tragedy of Auschwitz shows what the ideas of hatred and contempt for another human being lead to. The instrumentalization of the fate of people who died in German camps with anti-immigration rhetoric is a shameful and appalling manifestation of moral and intellectual corruption.” we are reading.
As we already wrote in naTemat, Pietrzak himself commented on his statement. In an interview with the portal Gazeta.pl He emphasized that he was not in favor of placing immigrants in former concentration camps. However, he added that: He only wanted to… criticize the policy pursued by Germany.
– I didn't say that, they were the organizers (Germany – ed.). They said that they (immigrants – ed.) would be sent to Polish camps because they did not know where to keep them. I read somewhere that there are plans to create camps for migrants to be sent to Poland. Such was my attitude towards this information, says Satir.