Kaczynski brothers take TVP to court over violation of journalistic ethics

Justice Minister Lech Kaczynski and his brother Jaroslaw yesterday filed a petition with a Warsaw court to demand that public television TVP accept that its program on the so-called FOZZ affair was a gross violation of journalistic ethics. According to the Kaczynski's attorney, Jerzy Naumann, the TVP journalists had quoted without question statements accusing the brothers of illegally accepting funds for financing their former party, the Central Union (PC). The money was said to have been handed over from the state's foreign debt operation fund (FOZZ) by Janusz Iwanowski-Pineiro, who is currently under arrest, charged with financial irregularities. The brothers are demanding an apology from TVP. (Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 4) M.T.