Prosecutor Ewa Wrzosek wrote on X that “during PiS rule, Poland was such a great ‘oasis of freedom’ that even foreign courts were afraid to hand over our own citizens to us under European Arrest Warrants.” “I defended families sought under the EAW by the Netherlands or Sweden and I know how it really was, so please don’t mislead people,” replied attorney Bartosz Lewandowski.
PiS MP Marcin Warchoł stated in a post on X that during the rule of the United Right, “the Polish prosecutor’s office did not blindly comply with foreign European Arrest Warrants.” He made this comment in reference to the arrest of Volodymyr Zhuravlov, a Ukrainian national wanted by Germany for the alleged sabotage of Nord Stream 2.
“Poland was an oasis of freedom that protected the rights of families. Even citizens of Western EU countries fled here from persecution, knowing they would be protected,” Warchoł recalled.
Prosecutor Ewa Wrzosek reacted to his words, declaring that “during PiS rule, Poland was such a great ‘oasis of freedom’ that even foreign courts were afraid to hand over our own citizens under European Arrest Warrants – in case that freedom might accidentally destroy them.”
“Those who supposedly fled here from the EU? And where else could they go, if not to a country where the prosecutor’s office doesn’t function, and the European one is absent because Ziobro is afraid of it?” she added.
Attorney Bartosz Lewandowski responded sharply to Wrzosek.
“I defended families sought under the EAW by the Netherlands or Sweden and I know how it really was, so please don’t mislead people. The prosecutor’s office behaved very properly. My clients weren’t detained, no arrest motions were filed, and they remained at liberty. (Such ‘Ziobrists’ that the prosecutor handling the case of Denis Lisov was prosecutor Dariusz Ślepokura – now in Investigative Team No. 2 for the Fund.)” – said the lawyer.
He also added that “the court (Judge Dariusz Łubowski) crushed the arguments of law enforcement authorities from other countries.”