"Certainly, there is compassion towards a person who has gone through a serious illness, and that empathy is still with me," said Waldemar Żurek in an interview with Bogdan Rymanowski on the program "Gość Wydarzeń" (Guest of the Events) on Polsat News, when asked if, looking at Zbigniew Ziobro, he felt both justice and mercy for him.

"Here, I humanly empathize with the former minister, because I am not devoid of this empathy. However, I must do my job and I must also show citizens that one cannot instrumentally hide behind illness. We see one minister on a conference one day, on a plane, flying, delivering very fiery speeches, whether outdoors or in a studio, and the next day we hear his colleagues say, 'the minister is sick, let's not touch him.' In this way, any politician or many Polish citizens could avoid justice by saying, 'we are sick now,'" he continued.

"I wish the minister good health and I keep my fingers crossed for him, but I must uphold the law, because we are all equal before the law," he added.