“This is a reprehensible and outrageous case, because the man who should decide on the impartiality of the excluded judges is himself the most biased of all,” said Marcin Romanowski, a PiS MP and former deputy justice minister, in an interview with Telewizja wPoland, referring to the actions of judge Krzysztof Chmielewski.
Editor Wojciech Biedroń asked MP Marcin Romanowski about the new accusation against Fr. Michał Olszewski to prolong the priest’s detention. This time it turns out that Fr. Olszewski and two clerks, also arrested, operated in an “organized criminal group”, allegedly led by Romanowski.
Fr. Olszewski appeals to legal authority to obtain funds for his beautiful work [budowa Archipelagu, czyli schronienia dla osób dotkniętych przemocą – przyp. red.]to a legal authority. A legal authority legally grants you these funds and in the end it turns out that you are all part of a criminal group, but none of you made any money from this practice. You are weak criminals, Minister
– Biedroń commented ironically.
I beg to differ, because I finally managed to find out from the first instance prosecutor’s office what my personal benefit should be. Because I am not accused of any financial benefit, and in the case of Father Michał we are talking about a benefit for the foundation, because granting a grant will always be a benefit.
– observed Deputy Romanowski.
This personal benefit consists of the satisfaction associated with the fact that the organizations that received our funds are of a conservative and Christian nature, consistent with my worldview. Well, if this is a crime, then of course I congratulate the prosecutors on their good humor.
– he added.
However, it is difficult to speak of good humor in a situation where we are dealing with torture, unjustified detention of three people in custody, and now additional charges are brought at the last minute to justify a request for additional detention, after these Court of Appeal decisions, which were devastating for the Public Prosecution Service, cut short these detentions.
– said the interlocutor of Telewizja wPolska.
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Why is “criminal group” absurd?
It is good to know who was in this “criminal group”, because it is a bit embarrassing for the “leader” not to know who is in his “group”. It would be ridiculous, especially because, as the alleged leader of this group, I presented myself to the Public Prosecutor’s Office, which, however, showed no interest in me.
– Romanowski pointed out.
This entire accusation – apart from the fact that there are no crimes, there is no criminal group – structurally, cannot be combined with accusations of official crimes. There can be no action by an organized group such as a ministry, because Art. 258 states that this group must be formed for the purpose of committing crimes. Here, however, we are dealing with an already existing structure, based on the law.
– highlighted the deputy of Sovereign Poland.
In my opinion, all this happened because the Court of Appeal questioned the qualification provided for in Art. 296, i.e. breach of trust in commercial transactions and major material damage, as was the case with Fr. Michał and Mrs. Karolina and Mrs. Urszula as a pretext for arrest. And it completely failed, so we had to invent something else and that thing is an “organized criminal group”.
– he assessed.
This will also end in a moment, perhaps even if the court that made the arrest considers it. This is what the methods of action show: “Give me a man and there will be a paragraph.”
– emphasized the PiS deputy.
“We are dealing with the construction of a lawless state.”
To the presenter’s comment that the authorities’ actions towards the opposition are beginning to meet Belarusian standards and that the Polish rule of law is not doing well, Marcin Romanowski replied:
We are dealing with the construction of a lawless state, but this process did not begin with the Justice Fund case. It all began very quickly, in December last year, with the illegal acquisition of public television.
Now we know that the Russian spy’s partner was involved in the Entry group. If we want to look for an organized criminal group somewhere, this is, in my opinion, a classic example. And the facts that we have learned, in my opinion, sufficiently justify the allegations that we were dealing with an organized criminal group there.
– said the politician.
The group they were involved in included public figures such as the then Minister of Culture, Lieutenant Colonel Sienkiewicz. But of course this could not have happened without Donald Tusk. We can list other examples of obvious violations of the law, depriving opposition MPs of their freedom, dragging them out of the Presidential Palace or forcibly taking over the prosecutor’s office. Now we see why this forced takeover was valid and why Adam Bodnar so harshly changes the presidents of the courts, even in violation of the law. In this case, I am talking primarily about the Warsaw District Court.
– he realized.
Editor Biedroń also asked his interlocutor about the actions of judge Krzysztof Chmielewski.
My representative, Bartosz Lewandowski, has already sent a message to the Council of Europe on this matter. We keep them informed, “fortunately” or unfortunately, I say “unfortunately” because of the image of the Polish state. Every week there is no shortage of reasons to send long letters to the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe.
– replied Deputy Romanowski.
This is a shameful and outrageous case, because the man who is supposed to decide on the impartiality of the excluded judges is himself the most biased of all. This reminds me of the case where Adam Bodnar, in violation of the Constitution, issued a decision rejecting my request to exclude Mr. Korneluk’s prosecutors on the grounds of lack of impartiality. Whoever it is, except Mr. Adam Bodnar, is not the most impartial in my case, to say the least. All this shows that we live in some alternate reality.
– he pointed.
“All these prosecutors should be fired.”
When asked about the personal interests of the prosecutors involved in the case of Father Olszewski, for example, prosecutor Woźniak, the former deputy minister replied:
All these prosecutors should be removed from this case due to their personal motives of revenge.
Prosecutor Kowalska herself decided to retire in an accelerated manner after my unsuccessful arrest and this complete blasphemy of the prosecutor’s office. It is not the first and I assume it will not be the last
– said Marcin Romanowski.
The question is whether anyone else wants to cooperate in this group, because it would turn into a kind of “Dirty Dozen” and I think the prosecutors are not very interested in tarnishing their reputation in this kind of activity. The prosecutor’s narrative is falling apart, we’ve seen it before and I think we’ll see it again soon. For a prosecutor who is interested – to put it bluntly – in the job, not in politics, there is simply nothing to be done in this case.
– summarized the guest of Telewizja wPoland.
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