state of play: 03/19/2025

STATE OF PLAY: Czaputowicz on the closure of Radio Free Europe like Biełsat, Kuisz: Poles likely sense change faster than their representatives

Łukasz Mężyk

— SIKORSKI DID NOT SHARE HIS EXPERIENCES REGARDING THE LIQUIDATION OF AN INDEPENDENT STATION BROADCASTING IN BELARUSIAN – JACEK CZAPUTOWICZ IN RZ: "Radosław Sikorski commented on Donald Trump's decision by saying he listened to Radio Free Europe in his childhood, which made him an anti-communist. However, he did not share his experiences regarding the liquidation of an independent station broadcasting in Belarusian, Biełsat TV."

— THE QUESTION ARISES WHETHER THE VOICE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION WOULD BE AS READILY HEARD AS THE VOICE OF AMERICA – CZAPUTOWICZ FURTHER IN RZ: "The European editorial office of Radio Free Europe is based in Prague, so Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavský proposed that the EU take over its financing. However, the question arises whether the Voice of the European Union would be as readily heard as the Voice of America."
https://www.rp.pl/komentarze/art41959941-jacek-czaputowicz-czy-wolna-europa-podzieli-los-bielsatu

— PARTITIONS ARE RETURNING TO OUR PART OF EUROPE. MEANWHILE, THE POLISH POLITICAL CLASS REMAINS IN THE TRENCHES OF POLARIZATION. WILL ANYONE WAKE UP? – JAROSŁAW KUISZ IN INTERIA: "We are entering both an old and a new world simultaneously, and from this perspective, the disputes of most Polish politicians seem simply regrettable and provincial. If we believe public opinion polls, which indicate fatigue with the duopoly, Poles likely sense the change faster than their representatives."
https://wydarzenia.interia.pl/felietony/news-rozbiory-2025,nId,21322146

— THE GRAVE OF THE CZARNECKI COUPLE WAS UNDER ELECTRONIC SURVEILLANCE – A HIDDEN CAMERA WAS INSTALLED NEAR IT. CBA AGENTS APPEARED AT THE CEMETERY IN OLEŚNICA ON ALL SAINTS' DAY – WOJCIECH CZUCHNOWSKI IN GW: "Part of this operation was carried out at the cemetery in Oleśnica. We found traces of it in the public part of the files, but the details are in the secret documents of this proceeding. According to our sources, from at least January 2022 to July 2023, the grave of the Czarnecki couple was under electronic surveillance – a hidden camera was installed near it. CBA agents appeared at the cemetery in Oleśnica on All Saints' Day, the businessman's parents' birthdays, and the anniversaries of their deaths. They hoped Czarnecki would visit the grave and they could apprehend him then. None of this came to fruition, and the operation ended when the court in the summer of 2023 refused to arrest Czarnecki and issue a warrant for his arrest for the third time. Reason: 'lack of probability of committing a crime.' The court also stated that Leszek Czarnecki was not hiding from the prosecutor's office."

— THE ACTIONS OF THE PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE AND ZIOBRO HIMSELF INDICATE THAT THE THEN-AUTHORITIES DECIDED TO DEAL WITH CZARNECKI AND HIS LAWYER – CZUCHNOWSKI FURTHER IN GW: "The actions of the prosecutor's office and Ziobro himself indicate that the then-authorities decided to deal with Czarnecki and his lawyer. First – in September 2020 – Ziobro implicated Czarnecki in the GetBack affair. Then – in October 2020 – the CBA arrested Giertych. The operation took place after the lawyer left court, the day before a hearing where Giertych was supposed to defend Czarnecki against arrest. By bringing accusations against the banker and his lawyer, the authorities – through Ziobro – were killing three birds with one stone. They shed the burden of the GetBack affair, undermined Czarnecki's credibility as the person who revealed corruption in the KNF, and finally neutralized an inconvenient lawyer hated by the PiS leader."
https://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,31775200,czarnecki.html

— HEAD OF THE BAR ASSOCIATION ON THE INTERROGATION OF BARBARA SKRZYBEK: PROSECUTOR EWA WRZOSEK'S WRONG DECISION – MECCA. PRZEMYSŁAW ROSATI IN CONVERSATION WITH MATEUSZ MIKOWSKI IN RZ: "Prosecutor Ewa Wrzosek had the right to deny the lawyer access to Barbara Skrzypek's interrogation. However, this was a wrong decision considering the right to legal assistance. I have never been denied participation in such proceedings," says mec. Przemysław Rosati, president of the Supreme Bar Council."
https://www.rp.pl/prawo-karne/art41960551-szef-adwokatury-o-przesluchaniu-barbary-skrzypek-bledna-decyzja-prokurator-ewy-wrzosek

— "I HAVE THE FEELING THAT THE ACTIONS IN THIS CASE COULD HAVE BEEN PREPARED MORE CAREFULLY." NOWACKA ON THE INTERROGATION OF FORMER SKRZYBEK – 300LIVE: https://300polityka.pl/live/2025/03/19/

— "TOGETHER LET US DEFEAT THIS EVIL!". "GRUMBLING DEMOCRACY" IS NO LONGER JUST GRUMBLING, BUT IS BITING – MORTALLY. IT'S INCITING TO DEATH – PROF. ANDRZEJ NOWAK ON WPOLITYCE: "There will be no peace here. And that's the point, since his loss in the 2005 presidential elections, the initiator of this constant campaign of hatred, called, as in Orwell, 'politics of love.' How will we get out of this? I can only repeat the words of a well-known slogan: 'Together let us defeat this evil!'"
https://wpolityce.pl/polityka/724081-razem-pokonajmy-to-zlo

— BIRTHDAYS: Dobrochna Kędzierska, Arlena Sokalska, Michał Wojtczak, Piotr Szumlewicz.


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