“Our friends who analyze large-scale conflicts often tell us that if they’re shooting at you from below right after you’ve dropped your bombs, it means you hit your targets,” said Michał Rachoń, Program Director of Telewizja Republika. His comment referred to the actions of law enforcement agencies targeting journalists from the Strefa Wolnego Słowa media group. On Wednesday, the police visited the home of journalist Monika Borkowska.
Earlier that day, Tomasz Sakiewicz, President of Telewizja Republika, reported that police officers had arrived at Borkowska’s home. The purpose of the visit was to deliver a summons for questioning “in connection with the actions of the station’s management.”
“We are witnessing an intensification of police, prosecutorial, and judicial activity,” Sakiewicz assessed.
“Even the Secretaries”
Later in the day, Jarosław Olechowski, Head of Editors at Republika, also commented on the matter.
“Donald Tusk’s prosecution office is issuing mass summonses for questioning to journalists from Republika, as well as former TVP reporters and TAI employees — even secretaries and drivers,” he wrote on social media.
“They’re asking detailed questions about me and the decisions I made while at TVP. Dozens of people have already been questioned, and in total, about 120 people are expected to be called. Enormous forces and resources have been mobilized for the investigation, including a special task force sent from Kraków to Warsaw,” Olechowski revealed.
“A Complete Circus”
Olechowski described the prosecutors’ actions as “a circus.”
“Investigators ask questions like: ‘Do you know Olechowski, and what can you say about him?’ This has been going on for over a year. It’s a classic fishing expedition — they’re trying to dig up anything that could be used to press charges against me. So far, they’ve found nothing, and the political desperation to ‘get Olechowski’ is only growing,” he stated.
“We Keep Doing Our Job”
Republika’s Program Director Michał Rachoń also commented on the investigation, claiming that
“Tusk’s security services are trying to intimidate our journalists and disrupt our daily operations.”
“They’re summoning our reporters, showing up at their homes — as in the case of Monika Borkowska — and forcing people to travel to Kraków just to be asked whether they’d like to provide any incriminating information about Jarosław Olechowski or other members of Republika’s management,” Rachoń wrote on X.
He added:
“Our friends who study large-scale conflicts say that if they’re firing at you from below right after you’ve dropped your bombs, it means you’ve hit your targets. So we’ll just keep doing what we do.”