A court has ordered the three-month pre-trial detention of journalist Leszek Kraskowski at the request of prosecutors. The case, however, has raised a number of questions. “We have gone down the path of Lukashenko and Putin,” commented PiS leader Jarosław Kaczyński on X.
“If those in power are conducting a hunt for independent journalists and putting them in prison, it is a sign not of strength, but of weakness,” Kaczyński wrote.
Inconvenient for Giertych
Leszek Kraskowski, known for publishing information embarrassing to Roman Giertych of the Civic Coalition (KO), including details related to the Polnord case, has been placed in pre-trial detention for three months. He faces charges of making criminal threats and illegally possessing a gas pistol without the required permit.
Several hours after the information became public, the prosecution service issued a statement confirming the detention order.
According to prosecutor Piotr Antoni Skiba, spokesperson for the Warsaw District Prosecutor’s Office, Kraskowski, when questioned as a suspect, did not admit to committing the alleged offenses. Regarding the weapons charge, he declined to provide explanations. Concerning the allegation that he made criminal threats against the County Police Commander in Piaseczno, he also refused to give explanations and instead presented his own version of events, claiming that he was not the perpetrator of the offense. He argued that the real offender was a person who had allegedly threatened him with a knife in a separate incident.
Before filing the motion for pre-trial detention, prosecutors obtained an expert opinion concerning the construction and classification of the weapon and ammunition involved. At later stages of the proceedings, authorities plan to obtain a forensic computer analysis as well as a court-ordered psychiatric evaluation.