Do you remember the author of the story about “Ibrahim,” who supposedly floated in a river for six days? It was one of the most widely discussed narratives from the period of the hybrid war conducted on the Belarus-Poland border. It turns out that the woman who told this story to TVN was also quoted by other media regarding the situation on the border. One of the texts in which she appeared was written by… Pablo González, that is, the Russian spy Pavel Rubtsov.
Katarzyna Wappa owes her popularity to her appearance in a TVN report during the hybrid war waged by the Belarusian regime of Alexander Lukashenko. In the “Czarno na białym” program, Wappa recounted the story of a migrant who had supposedly “floated down a river for six days, eating nothing and drinking nothing.”
The story of “Ibrahim” caused a major stir, and the TVN interlocutor defended herself – she claimed she had not made anything up and that the story was definitely true because “Ibrahim” had told her himself. “I used a certain mental shortcut concerning a six-day journey whose route involved the river. (…) I did not mean that Ibrahim never left the river during the daytime,” she later explained.
What’s more, she even received a “freedom of speech” medal.
As it turns out, Wappa spoke not only with TVN. As an internet user on X under the pseudonym John Bingham discovered, her statement also appeared in an article by the EFE agency published, among other places, on the Swiss portal swissinfo.ch. The title of the article is “Aid at the Polish-Belarusian border, where the need does not subside,” and its author is… Pablo González. That is, the Russian spy Pavel Rubtsov, who was greeted at the airport by Vladimir Putin himself after being released from custody.
“Katarzyna Wappa is a Polish-language teacher from Hajnówka, near the Belarusian border, who for two months has been secretly helping migrants trying to enter the territory of the European Union. The area is calm now, but the need remains,”
he wrote in that article.
“Hey, Tusk’s gang. Who was promoting Ms. Kasia? Let me remind you – you and Putin’s agent,”
commented MP Dariusz Matecki.
There is no shortage of other comments as well. One might say – quoting a classic – what a coincidence…