The singer versus Majchrowski. The process starts
- The Mayor of Krakow accuses the Warsaw activist of public insult and slander after Jan Śpiewak * as on his channel, who killed “The biggest Krakow scandals”
- – The facts new by me in the film are not questioned. This process is an answer to the question of where the boundary of public debate and freedom of speech is in Krakow, and whether it sometimes ends where someone has a different opinion than President Jacek Majchrowski and his associates – says Jan Śpiewak
- – We live in a democratic state ruled by law. If I catch that someone got a job in a company, to neighboring companies for the things with the standards that prevail in the Krakow city hall – says
- In his film of new facts, the singer did not rely on the information previously provided by the Krakow media. However, he added a few negative opinions about the president of Krakow and hence the libel lawsuit brought by Jacek Majchrowski as an activist. The first hearing is on Thursday, November 25
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Dawid Serafin: You appealed to the President of Krakow for the openness of the process. Why?
Jan Śpiewak: Polish law allowing two forms of defamation trial. One of them is a civil process which is open to the public. The second to process a criminal that may be classified. The prosecuting party must agree to the disclosure. Jacek Majchrowski decided to go to a criminal trial.
From section 212 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, which allows for a prison sentence for libel. According to the information collected by the Law.pl website, there have been more and more convictions out of 212 in recent years.
This paragraph is criticized by journalists, activists and part of the legal community. This is a relic of the Polish People’s Republic, which is something unheard of in Western Europe. In fact, in his freedom of speech dispute, he uses a criminal trial and a clause that talks about a year in prison.
It can therefore be a person that process where the behavior of public life and the city of Krakow will be dealt with to keep behind closed doors.
For me, this is an example of what we have a problem with freedom of speech and public debate that should help solve the problems at the door. The verdict of the court on one issue, but also the “verdict” of the public. Residents should have the right to know what arguments will be raised in the courtroom. Jacek Majchrowski for new people on the thresholds. In order not to cancel this process, which the president did in his spare time. A trial was filed at the Krakow city hall, which he has been in charge of for nearly 20 years. The fact that President Majchrowski chose the criminal path, and not the civil testimony of his cynicism. You need a souvenir that he is a law professor, so he knows exactly what he is doing.
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“This process is an answer to the question of where is the limit of public debate and freedom of speech in Krakow”
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The Mayor of Krakow said he watched the film with “disgust”, but did not question the fact that it was presented there. So what does he accuse Mr. Jacek Majchrowski of?
He has a grudge against the opinions I give there. As he said, he said, he does not dispute the facts, but they are what I take from them. I am saying that there is a license to corruption in Krakow. The president also has a reservation that I used an excerpt from the movie “Psy” to illustrate the history of the burnt archive. From this Jacek Majchrowski it is concluded that through ten fragments he is associated with musical groups formed by former employees of the Security Service. The latest information about me in the film is not questioned. This process is an answer to the question of where in Krakow is the boundary of public debate and freedom of speech, and does it sometimes end where someone has a different opinion than President Jacek Majchrowski and his associates. To a cry of despair. The fact that it is happening in Krakow is very well documented by learning or city activists. These facts have been known for years. Local media in Krakow is very strong and has been describing various things for years and it has not been happening.
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“Lots of things, but this kind of insolence is not yet”
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You say in the film that in Krakow, you can get a job for a bribe and then become a vice president. You can find a job with the company for a director acting after a court ordered that person for setting tenders . To the small of many.
These are the things that testify to the very good standards that prevail in the Krakow city hall. In a democratic state ruled by law, some consequences, legal or state, are drawn against those who are responsible for managing the city. Although after the journalistic texts about the Management Board of Communal Buildings, the herring became interested in herring. Coins of the former vice-president of the city, Elżbieta K, were also recently presented. However, this is a drop in the ocean.
I made ten films and collected a limited fragment of cases in order to show the inhabitants of Krakow, but also of the whole country, that, for everything, it will collect a whole in order to see a picture of an unlikely moral collapse. This whole affair will end with the earthquake, but the earthquake is not here.
The pretext for the preparation of the film was a fire in the building.
Modern halls built for golden zlotys burned down, and with them were priceless documents.
95 percent exactly placed in the middle of documents, incl. Krakow real estate. The latest ones were dated on 2018.
Certainly, a system of interests will be created around Jacek Majchrowski, which has already lasted for two and has a lot to lose. Journalists disclosed the scandal in the Board of Municipal Buildings, materials of the defendants. There are several movable ones. Recently, I read that one of the inhabitants of Krakow wrote that the councilor of the Civic Platform could have had information about him from the prosecutor’s office. Dasem many things, but this kind of insolence is not yet.
Recently, the Jagiellonian Club has published an article about cooking a frog in Krakow. What must be necessary for this proverbial frog to appear. And even when the media describes all these scandals, the reaction of the city council is like in the Bareja film. We don’t have your coat and what will you do to us.
In our country, it is difficult to prosecute when it comes to determinants. However, there is official logistics. Jacek Majchrowski did not take responsibility towards the director, who was sentenced by a final judgment for setting tenders. A lady who got a job for a bribe, and later became a vice president. These are the facts. The court will now assess whether my opinion was proportionate or not.
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“When in Krakow, I have the impression that I read about the outlaw”
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President Majchrowski felt satisfied with the opinions you expressed. At the same time, his close associate compared the inhabitant to a Nazi. Jacek Majchrowski decided that he did not draw any consequences for the freedom of speech and any consequences.
Ten instrumental circuit of action per mode of operation. They are certainly not treated as partners. It is shocking to me.
Why does Jacek Majchrowski need this process?
I am a person. I am not getting paid for the functions. It is President Majchrowski and his officials who get money. They are ordinary people, and they have problems with criticizing their work, because they have little problems with it. In a democratic state, power is normal and understandable, even if it is very strict. Residents have the right to greater and more severe power than the power to verify consumers. Go out to that in Krakow is on. I have a membership that Krakow’s colleges are self-confident, so spoiled, so rotten due to the lack of control for these 20 years. And now Śpiewak from Warsaw is pointing out something to them and they cannot understand how it is possible. In the city of politicians there are supposed to be citizens, citizens, citizens, citizens, residents who are afraid of politicians. If, on the other hand, I lose, such an average resident will be in favor a few times before expressing a critical opinion about the city authorities.
Are we used to your authorities that the authorities in Poland are like this?
Often the PiS government is said to be stealing but selling itself. We have accepted that the public sphere in Poland is transforming itself into corruption, nepotism and scandals. We consider w to be something normal. People don’t see alternatives. The role of dietitians, journalists, social activists, Abbabilists, that is, practitioners in practical things to practice and them.
President Majchrowski in the lawsuit claims that I said that he describes Krakow as his private farm. This is my opinion and I am entitled to that opinion. President Jacek Majrowski is convinced of his own children, he hates criticism, he does not like control, if he says something, it should be like that. This is not a democratic model. The time of the president that president Majchr has the anniversary of the sale and that the city is equal to the fact that the city is paid. Maybe that’s why the president was upset that he was, someone from Warsaw told him to join the company, because he is the same as all of us.
How will you develop in court
After I wrote that the case would take place in Krakow, MP Bogusław Sonik would write that to demand execution to Warsaw. I tried, but due to the fact that the president is acting as president, the case will be in Krakow.
Of course I’m afraid, because this is a smaller city, and Mayor Majchrowski knows the legal community as well. I’m afraid it will end badly for me, but it’s at a price you can afford to trigger a discussion about the city in what is happening at the Krakow city hall. Even if the price for the transparency of public life will be my loser.
* Jan Śpiewak is a Warsaw city activist, known as the co-founder and co-founder of the Miasto Jest Nasze association. He became famous for his fight against Warsaw re-privatization, he revealed many facts about it many times before the court. In the government of 2019, it legally lost the trial with the daughter of Zbigniew Ćwiąkalski, the former government of justice of the PO-PSL
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