The government’s majority in parliament has voted to strip opposition leader Jarosław Kaczyński of immunity so that he can face prosecution for allegedly hitting an activist protesting during a commemoration of the plane crash that killed President Lech Kaczyński, Jarosław’s identical twin brother.
On the 10th day of every month, Jarosław Kaczyński, leader of the national-conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party, commemorates the Smolensk disaster of 10 April 2010, which killed Lech Kaczyński and 95 others during a flight to Russia.
The events regularly draw protesters, with one group repeatedly placing a wreath at the Smolensk memorial in Warsaw with an inscription accusing Lech Kaczyński himself of being responsible for the crash. That has often led to confrontations with Jarosław Kaczyński, who seeks to remove the wreath.
In September this year, during one such incident, Kaczyński allegedly struck activist Zbigniew Komosa, a moment captured on video.
“There were three attempts, but only two blows reached me,” Komosa told a parliamentary committee earlier this week during discussion of his request to lift Kaczyński’s immunity so that he can face prosecution.
The activist said he would withdraw the accusation and stop making the controversial wreaths if Kaczynski apologised for his claims that the Smolensk crash was not an accident – as official investigations found – but a deliberate assassination of his brother.
It's disappointing that he won't be prosecuted for being a fascist who did his utmost to change Poland into a satrapy but Capone also wasn't prosecuted for his main crimes. I dearly hope that this case will be a beginning of his long and painful fall.
On the 10th day of every month, Jarosław Kaczyński, leader of the national-conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party, commemorates the Smolensk disaster of 10 April 2010, which killed Lech Kaczyński and 95 others during a flight to Russia.
The events regularly draw protesters, with one group repeatedly placing a wreath at the Smolensk memorial in Warsaw with an inscription accusing Lech Kaczyński himself of being responsible for the crash. That has often led to confrontations with Jarosław Kaczyński, who seeks to remove the wreath.
In September this year, during one such incident, Kaczyński allegedly struck activist Zbigniew Komosa, a moment captured on video.
“There were three attempts, but only two blows reached me,” Komosa told a parliamentary committee earlier this week during discussion of his request to lift Kaczyński’s immunity so that he can face prosecution.
The activist said he would withdraw the accusation and stop making the controversial wreaths if Kaczynski apologised for his claims that the Smolensk crash was not an accident – as official investigations found – but a deliberate assassination of his brother.
It's disappointing that he won't be prosecuted for being a fascist who did his utmost to change Poland into a satrapy but Capone also wasn't prosecuted for his main crimes. I dearly hope that this case will be a beginning of his long and painful fall.
The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
Mikhail Bakunin.
Mikhail Bakunin.
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