"I sincerely thank president Andrzej Duda for his pardon" - wrote Robert Bąkiewicz on Tuesday. The head of state on Friday signed a decision to dispense a punishment of restrictions on freedom against right-wing activists. As he felt, Duda stood "in defence of the truth, justice and all those who are present illegally pursued."
Friday President Andrzej Duda signed the decision to grant a punishment of regulation of freedom to Robert Bąkiewicz. It happened after the day before lawyer General Adam Bodnar repealed the decision of predecessors from the time of the Law and Justice Government to suspend punishment against national activists - after the November 2023 launch pardon procedure.
As part of the penalty, Bąkiewicz was to hold a punishment in the form of Social work 30 hours a year and pay out 10 1000 zlotys attachment. By decision of the President, the activist will avoid this first sanction.
The president pardoned Robert Bąkiewicz. Thank you for "stour and wisdom"
On Tuesday, Bąkiewicz expressed his gratitude for the decision of the head of state. "I sincerely thank president Andrzej Duda for pardon me on alleged management. violations of physical immunity a individual known to the public as alleged 'Grandmother Kasia' - Catherine Augustinek" - wrote on platform X.
In the entry he emphasized that he was and is an innocent person. He thanked Duda for "residence and wisdom." He added that the President's decision showed that Poland could not be a country in which "the innocent are sentenced, and the hooligans carried out on pedestals".
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"Mr president - your decision not only stood up for me, but above all in To defend the truth, justice, and all those who are present illegally pursued for faithfulness to specified values as God and Homeland..." - he said.
Bąkiewicz points to "Grandmother of the Duck": Acts of aggression, spitting and beating
Robert Bąkiewicz stated that it was the activist who repeatedly committed "acts of aggression, spitting and beating police officers, attacks on churches, spreading hatred towards women and calling for force against another people". In his opinion "Grandmother Kasia was "the assailant" from whom the victim was made., in turn he was wanted to make "criminal and aggressor".
"It's a symbol of times when 'free courts' they can act on political commission, not in the name of justice" - he said.
Bąkiewicz recalled that the case concerns events of 2020, at the time - as he wrote - "the wave of violent speeches of the so-called. Women's Strike, whose participants attacked churches, spread hatred slogans, and the 'smoky in churches' action straight encouraged desecration, disruption of services, and even arson of temples."
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He said he was in "defending holy places, order and values". "My actions were aimed at defending order, dignity and principles, which were attempted violently to trample through revolutionary, aggressive fat" - he stressed. Referring to the situation itself, he emphasized that "in the full event there was no prohibited act - everything took place at presence and approval of police".
Bodnar on Duda's decision: Regularly undermines the fundamental values of the Constitution
The case was besides referred to by the lawyer General himself and the Minister of Justice Adam Bodnar, which on Thursday suspended detention against Bąkiewicz, sentenced in November 2023. erstwhile lawyer General Marcin Warchol He then initiated a pardon procedure and suspended the sentence.
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Bodnar reported a fewer days ago that "there are no grounds for further usage by Bąkiewicz of this privilege". Now he decided that "President of the Republic of Poland has a constitutional right of grace and must be respected". At the same time, he assessed that this decision Duda showed his "real face as a individual who, alternatively of being in charge of the Constitution of Poland, regularly undermines its basic values".
"However, I believe that the pardon of R. Bąkiewicz, guilty of carrying out a scandalous crime - as the courts of both instances stated - harms the social sense of justice" - passed on to X.
