The Prosecutor’s Office is planning to detain Zbigniew Ziobro immediately upon his return to the country, even without first lifting his parliamentary immunity. Law and Justice (PiS) MP Jan Kanthak did not hide his outrage in a conversation with Danuta Holecka. “These people have taken leave of their senses; they’re looking for cheap showmanship and a circus in the face of the crisis that is consuming the Polish state,” the lawmaker said on the program “Dzisiaj” on TV Republika.
As Niezalezna.pl has learned, the Prosecutor’s Office intends to detain MP Zbigniew Ziobro immediately after his return to Poland, without first having his immunity lifted. According to the findings, the former justice minister would be detained right at the airport and then held until the Sejm votes on lifting his immunity and on possible pre-trial detention.
“Looking for cheap showmanship”
PiS MP Jan Kanthak, a close associate of Ziobro, commented extensively on the matter on TV Republika’s “Dzisiaj.” The politician did not hide his indignation at Niezależna outlet’s reports, arguing that the entire operation is, in his view, purely political.
“It is clearly visible that these people have taken leave of their senses; they’re looking for cheap showmanship, a cheap circus, in the face of the major crisis running through the Polish state -linked to the condition of the health service and the state of Poland’s budget. They’re grasping at cheap tricks; they’re pushing things to the limit – indeed, beyond the limit,”
the lawmaker stated.
According to Kanthak, the leaks about the Prosecutor’s Office’s plans show that even among officers and officials within the state apparatus, opposition to the government’s actions is growing.
“Please note that if things like this are leaking out, it means that people placed in the services or in the Prosecutor’s Office view it very negatively, and it means they’re simply doing the math. Why should I break my back? Why should I stick my neck out for a government that will most likely be gone in, at most, two years?” he said.
“So they release this kind of information into the public sphere, most likely to prevent such a turn of events,”
he added.
“Installing a regime system”
Later in the conversation, Kanthak spoke about what he called the “advancing politicization” of the state and the judiciary.
“Looking at what this government is doing today, one is appalled. In every sphere, wherever you look, there is this installing of a system, a kind of totalitarian regime,”
he emphasized.
As an example, he pointed to the situation concerning PiS chairman Jarosław Kaczyński, whose court case, he noted, landed before a judge with controversial connections.
“Today, we have a situation where Chairman Jarosław Kaczyński had his case in court, and it turns out that, oddly enough, the judge in his case is someone who, literally just recently, became president of a District Court by appointment from Waldemar Żurek. And at the same time, this judge is the son of a former Civic Platform activist, the head of Marcin Kierwiński’s parliamentary office. Such a person is appointed as the judge in Chairman Jarosław Kaczyński’s case,”
the politician said.
According to Kanthak, this judge also had activity on social media that – as he put it – undermines his impartiality:
“This judge was ‘liking’ social media profiles that attack PiS in a vulgar manner.”