With the second round of Poland’s presidential election just days away, Onet has broken a story that the conservative, PiS-backed Karol Nawrocki helped bring prostitutes to guests at the five-star Grand Hotel in the seaside town of Sopot while working there as a security guard.
The paper’s sources are supposedly Nawrocki’s colleagues at the time, who wish to remain anonymous but claim they are willing to testify in court.
Calling the report “a pack of lies,” Nawrocki announced that he would be suing Onet in a civil procedure for violating his personal rights and file a separate indictment for a criminal procedure.
Editor-in-chief of Do Rzeczy, Paweł Lisicki, commented on the matter on the portal’s weekly Youtube program, saying, “I am surprised by one thing. After all, Onet, Gazeta Wyborcza and other progressive media have been trying for a long time to promote the category of sex workers, or prostitutes (…) and explain to Poles that it is a profession like any other and that there is nothing to be ashamed of,” he said.
Gazeta Wyborcza and Wysokie Obcasy both published a series of texts and interviews in the past, in which “women talked about how great a success it was that they could be prostitutes,” he said, adding that these portals felt society should appreciate them more.
Lisicki then concluded that Onet and other left-wing portals should not be attacking Nawrocki but praising him. “He was a pioneer of progress, and they are outraged. (…) Either these media are in the vanguard of progress, or they condemn it,” he said, adding that Nawrocki should be Gazeta Wyborcza’s Person of the Year.
The chief editor then commented that the release of such private information is simply a desperate move by Rafał Trzaskowski’s camp. “Seriously speaking, I think the ground is burning under their feet. Because releasing this type of information five days before the elections, based on unidentified ‘witnesses’ shows a huge fear, that they are simply in a state of despair,” he said.
“The general Polish society reacts very badly to such pseudo-revelations. They don’t even investigate whether it is true or not. We simply don’t like it when someone fouls, and this is an obvious foul,” said Lisicki.
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Donald Tusk, whose party is backing Trzaskowski, has waded into the saga, telling Polsat News that this story clearly ties Nawrocki to criminals: “From all sides we hear accounts of events from Karol Nawrocki’s life, but also from Karol Nawrocki’s present, which indicate his close ties to the hard criminal world.”
He also told Nawrocki to go to court to defend himself now before possibly being elected president if he knows he can clear his name.
After indicating that the “anonymous” sources have already given sworn testimony, Tusk seems to indicate MMA fighter Jacek Murański is one of them, quoting part of a statement given by “Murański”: “I know about the so-called kompromats, hooks that Patryk Masiak – Big Boo – boasted about, and about the influence he has on Karol Nawrocki,” Tusk quoted.
According to Murański’s statement, Masiak, who is a cage fighter, said: “I have him by the throat and he will do anything for me,” the prime minister read from a piece of paper transferred to the studio.
The prime minister added some background on Patryk Masiak. “People may not know who Big Boo is, an acquaintance of Mr. Nawrocki (…), Big Boo – who kidnaped a woman, was sentenced to two years of imprisonment, tied her to a radiator, held her down to force her to sign a contract, participation in a criminal group profiting from other people’s prostitution via threats and extortion, a trial is underway,” indicating that the man is facing more prison time.
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