“Żurek promised Tusk spectacular reckonings with our government – arrests broadcast on TVN and show trials. Yet he failed to bring me back from Budapest. Even the trunk of the car is still empty,” Zbigniew Ziobro wrote on X. He also revealed who, in his view, has been pressuring the court to “speed up” proceedings in his cases.
For months, prosecutors have been trying to bring former justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro back to Poland. Judges handling his case have been replaced, and pressure has been exerted to accelerate the proceedings. Ziobro referred to these developments in his latest social media post.
He stated that he had received information from what he described as a reliable source that Deputy Justice Minister Dariusz Mazur was “doing everything he can.”
“He was supposed to be pressuring the District Court in Warsaw to move up the dates of my cases, and judges are being replaced where necessary, because the authorities must be kept at least somewhat satisfied,”
Ziobro wrote.
Ziobro also recalled that “Mazur is the same person who once refused an American request to extradite Roman Polański, who was wanted on suspicion of sexually abusing a minor.”
“He is the one who boasted that he was replacing court presidents in violation of the law in force. It is also because of him that the District Court in Warsaw is being run, contrary to statutory provisions, by a person who is no longer even an active judge. It is therefore clear that Mazur can apply pressure quite boldly,”
the post reads.
According to Ziobro, Waldemar Żurek’s time as head of the Justice Ministry is drawing to a close.
“Żurek promised Tusk spectacular reckonings with our government – arrests broadcast on TVN and show trials. Yet he failed to bring me back from Budapest. Even the trunk of the car is still empty. That is why he wants to deliver at least some symbolic political success, even one obtained in absentia. Tusk’s PR advisers are already working on the script for the prime minister’s next video, set against an autumn backdrop, but this time without Żurek in the leading role…,”
Ziobro concluded.