Bielecki ordered to apologize for claim that Warsaw mayor is mafia boss

Solidarity Election Action (AWS) deputy Czeslaw Bielecki has been ordered to apologize to the election committee of Civic Platform (PO) and to Warsaw Mayor Pawel Piskorski for his statement describing Piskorski as “the Warsaw mafia boss”. The Warsaw District Court decided yesterday that Bielecki should publish a statement on the third page of Gazeta Wyborcza within 48 hours of the judgment coming into effect. The statement must state that the claim made by Bielecki that Piskorski was a boss of the mafia in Warsaw is untrue. He must also apologize to Piskorski and his committee for “public dissemination of offensive information in violation of his personal integrity”. Bielecki has announced he will appeal against yesterday’s court ruling. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 5)