The Center for Monitoring Racist and Xenophobic Behavior filed a lawsuit over President Andrzej Duda’s statement on the “Gość Wiadomości” program on TVP Info on September 20, 2023. The President explained that he was not surprised that the Border Guard used the phrase “Only pigs sit in the cinema” in reference to people who Watch the movie “Green Borders”.
– I am not surprised that the border guard officers who watched this film used the slogan “Only pigs sit in the cinema”, known to us since the times of the Nazi occupation, when Nazi propaganda films were shown in our cinemas – said President Andrzej Duda. He added that, in his opinion, the film “defames Polish officers.”
In response to later accusations that the phrase “Only pigs sit in the cinema” was offensive to Poles, the president allegedly clarified that he had used a quote.
They filed a lawsuit against Andrzej Duda for insulting the citizens of his country
On Saturday, September 29, the Center for Monitoring Racist and Xenophobic Behavior announced on social media that court The District Court in Warsaw set “the date of the first hearing in the trial in which we filed a lawsuit against Andrzej Duda on charges of insulting the citizens of his country.”