This is not going to be a text about what Andrzej Duda did recently, although he's on the candlestick now. The pardon of Robert Bąkiewicz is 1 of his last decisions as head of state. In the opinion of many people – scandalous. In history, however, we have had more akin situations erstwhile the president was at the centre of attention, thanks to pardons.
Five loudest pardons. It is not only Bąkiewicz, Kamiński and Wąsik
1. Wa3ęsa and pardon "The Slovak"
Lech Wałęsa applied the law of grace to 3,454 people during his 1 term. In 444 cases, his decision was denied. To this day he is reminded of the situation of 1993, erstwhile he pardoned "Słowik" – 1 of the leaders of the Praszkowski mob Andrzej Zieliński.
It was about the 1987 sentence, "The Slovak" was then sentenced to six years in prison for theft and robbery. After little than 3 years in prison, he received a random pass from prison management, from which he did not return. He hid and later wrote to Wałęsa and demanded pardon.
The lawyer General did not agree to dismiss the charges, but the then president had his opinion and signed a motion to pardon "The Slovak". The media speculated that "The Slovak" paid $150,000 for this. The money was to be given to officials from Lech Walesa, but no evidence was found to support this thesis.
Wa3ęsa later denied that there could be no bribery, and acquitted "The Slovak" due to the fact that "the faithful priests stood up for him at the time." He claimed that at the time he pardoned the "Słowik", he had not yet been "Słowik" and "Słowik". “If I had known that the Nightingale would fly out on the Nightingale, I would have strangled him in the bud,” I convinced Wałęsa.
2. Kwasniewski and the pardon of Sobotka
Aleksander Kwasniewski pardoned as many as 4,302 people for 2 terms. He refused this right in 2639 cases. 1 of the loudest specified decisions was made in 2005, just before the end of his word of office. He pardoned erstwhile SLD politician and deputy chief of the MMA Zbigniew Sobotka. It was about softening the conviction from 3.5 years in prison to a year suspended for 2 years.
The decision sparked a storm, and Kwasniewski even criticized the future president – Bronisław Komorowski, who stated that this pardon was "low standards". He even suggested that the law of grace should possibly be abolished.
Sobotka is 1 of the main characters of the 2003 "Starachowice affair". His conviction afraid the provision of secret information about the planned police action to politicians associated with local government activists from Starachowice, suspected of cooperating with organized crime. Kwasniewski's decision to pardon explained humanitarian reasons.
One of Kwasniewski's leading critics was then... Mariusz Kamiński. A decision shameless, insolent. Aleksander Kwasniewski acted not as president in this case, but as "prezio" – he said, and his words quoted "Diary of the Legal Gazette".
3. Lech Kaczyński and Adam S.
Lech Kaczyński pardoned 201 people, besides issued 913 refusals. 1 of the most loud threads was the pardon in Adam S.'s 'extraordinary mode', who had previously established a partnership with Marcin Dubieniecki. He was sentenced to 1 year and 10 months in prison for 3 years. He admitted to extorting PLN 120 1000 from the State Fund for Rehabilitation of Persons with Disabilities.
– Everything was in accordance with the very strict, adopted by the Holy Memory of Lech Kaczyński, criteria and principles – argued Adam Hofman in 2011, then as a spokesperson for Law and Justice. In turn Jarosław Kaczyński at the same time said that he was trying to undertake without any basis "difamation action, insult action" of his late brother.
4. Komorowski and the pardon of Brylinski
Bronisław Komorowski pardoned 360 people, denied the right of grace to 1544 people. Like Lech Kaczyński, it was said that he was harsh in utilizing this possibility.
"Kaczyński and Komorowski pardoned very little. mostly convicted of stealing and driving alcohol. Before making a decision Komorowski did not take into account the prosecutor's negative opinion 4 times" – we wrote in the subject 10 years ago.
One of the loudest situations during Komorowski's word of office is the pardon of Artur Bryliński. His communicative became the subject of the movie "Long". Bryliński and his friend Sławomir Sikora were blackmailed by Grzegorz G., who wanted them to return a fictional loan. In March 1994, they kidnapped G. and his bodyguard, drove them into the woods and killed them there. Brylinski Sikora were sentenced to 25 years in prison.
Sikora was pardoned by Kwasniewski in 2005 by Bryliński as a consequence of the laws of grace received from Komorowski – in December 2010. – I feel that I do not deserve specified harsh treatment by the court. president Komorowski's decision closes a phase in my life and encourages a successful follow-up. In short, I am happy," Bryliński said for "Newsweek".
5. Duda and pardon of convicted paedophilia
Andrzej Duda had so controversial decisions about pardons that he could not miss it in the end. As of 2015, the President-in-Office has issued resolutions that pardon 146 people. He refused 970 people – specified data was given to Polsat News from the President's Chancellery.
In 2020, Duda unleashed the storm with a decision to pardon a convicted individual under the paragraph concerning bringing a insignificant to sexual intercourse "a threat, force or deceit". Not only that, it was besides a crime of bullying the nearest individual and harming them.
The headlines rapidly appeared, saying "The Pride pardoned the pedophile". The motion for pardon was made by the lawyer General, who was given a affirmative opinion by the courts of I and II instances. The NRP argued that the President, in deciding on the law of grace in this case "had in head considerations of intent in peculiar the fact of reconciliation between the perpetrator and the victim, the compensation of the wrongs caused and the present exemplary behaviour".
