We now know when the court will consider Magdalena Sroka’s parliamentary investigative committee’s motion to impose temporary detention on PiS MP Zbigniew Ziobro. The motion was submitted after Ziobro was successfully brought before the committee’s session, only for its members to end the meeting and leave.
The Pegasus inquiry committee had planned to question Zbigniew Ziobro for the last time on January 31. Earlier, Magdalena Sroka’s committee had asked the court to detain the MP and bring him in for questioning. In order to make this happen, the Sejm lifted Ziobro’s parliamentary immunity, and the Warsaw District Court granted permission. Police detained Ziobro on the day of the committee session, after 10:30 a.m., when he had just finished giving an interview at the headquarters of Telewizja Republika. Despite successfully bringing Ziobro before the committee, the members proceeded to vote on a motion for his arrest, then ended the session and left the room.
The Committee’s Motion Goes Before the Court
Spokesperson for the Warsaw District Court, Judge Anna Ptaszek, announced that the hearing regarding the investigative committee’s motion to arrest Zbigniew Ziobro would be held with representatives of both sides present—the committee and the former minister. The court will consider the motion on Monday, March 31.
“The hearing will take place with a representative of the investigative committee, if they attend, and with Mr. Ziobro and his attorney, if they attend,” said Judge Ptaszek. “It will be closed to the public, whose presence is not anticipated.”
She added that the hearing has been scheduled for next Monday, March 31, at noon in one of the Warsaw District Court’s courtrooms. The decision will be made by Judge Tomasz Grochowicz, about whom we recently wrote on Niezalezna.pl.