“In Poland, in a country where millions of people lost their lives in German concentration camps during World War II, such words are particularly objectionable. Even if they were said as a joke. You don’t joke about the martyrdom and suffering of millions of people” – Krzysztof Luft, a former member of the National Broadcasting Council and former TVP journalist, wrote in a complaint to the head of the National Broadcasting Council. In the letter, he emphasized that “these shocking words were not met with an appropriate reaction from the host of the program, who not only downplayed this scandalous statement, but even excused its author.”
Krzysztof Luft to the National Broadcasting Council about Jan Pietrzak’s words: An extremely drastic violation
Luft noted in the complaint that it expects the head of the National Broadcasting Council, Maciej Świrski, to punish the broadcaster “for this extremely drastic violation, which may prevent similar scandalous situations in the future on this broadcaster.”
These are Pietrzak’s words that were spoken on the air on December 31 in the evening. – I have a cruel joke. They count on Poles being prepared because we have barracks for immigrants in Auschwitz, Majdanek, Treblinka, Stutthof. We have a lot of barracks built here by the Germans and there we will detain these immigrants, illegally forced onto us by the Germans, said Jan Pietrzak. – This is indeed a very strong joke – the host Katarzyna Gójska reacted on Sunday, mentioning Jan Pietrzak’s experiences during World War II. She also said that if someone had personal experiences like his (Pietrzak’s father died in 1942 in Pawiak prison, he himself survived the Warsaw Uprising as a teenager – editor’s note), then “he can afford more.”
Later . – It wasn’t me who said that, it was them, the organizers [Niemcy – red.]. They said they would send it here [imigrantów – red.] to camps in Poland because they didn’t know where to keep them. I read it somewhere that there are plans to create camps for those migrants who need to be sent to Poland. This was my attitude towards this information – the satirist explained to Marcin Kozłowski.
There’s supposed to be an investigation
The recording of the entire broadcast was removed from the station’s YouTube account, fragments are circulating on social media. The following people reacted to Pietrzak’s statement: Minister of Justice Adam Bodnar. “I asked the National Prosecutor Dariusz Barski to deal with the matter of Jan Pietrzak’s statement on Republika TV and to initiate an investigation,” he said on Monday on the X website.
Representatives of the Auschwitz Museum also commented on the matter. “The tragedy of Auschwitz shows what ideas of hatred and contempt for another human being lead to. The instrumentalization of the fate of people who died in German camps in vile anti-migration rhetoric is a shameful and terrifying manifestation of moral and intellectual corruption,” they said.
In turn, on Republika TV itself, Marcin Mastalerek, the head of the president’s office, spoke critically about the satirist’s words. – The president didn’t like these words. He was outraged by them, he said. – It was not joke. There are topics and issues in Poland that cannot be used. For me it was an absolutely stupid statement. I do not agree to it and if I met Jan Pietrzak, I would tell him so – added Mastalerek. – It was not a statement taken out of context. It was a statement divorced from logic, reality and decency, he also said.
Source: Gazeta
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