Polish Parliament removes immunity from opposition leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski over assault case

MADRID Dec. 6 () –

The lower house of Poland’s Parliament this Friday lifted the immunity of the country’s opposition leader, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who is being investigated for the alleged assault of civil rights activist Zbigniew Komosa.

Komosa has accused Kaczynski of assault during an event on October 10 during the anniversary of the plane crash that took the life of the country’s then president and brother of the opposition leader, Lech Kaczynski.

The vote to withdraw the immunity of the leader of Law and Justice — and for almost a decade the great strongman of Polish politics — has ended with 241 votes in favor to 206 against, with no abstentions, according to the official news agency. Polish PAP news.

As PAP recalls, Kaczynski has been claiming without evidence for years that the Smolensk incident was a planned murder and accused his archrival Donald Tusk, the current prime minister, of cooperating with Russian President Vladimir Putin in planning the tragedy.

The activist who denounced the attack claims, on the other hand, that the then president and brother of the opponent was responsible for the accident that ended his own life and that of the rest of the passengers, and has accused Jaroslaw Kaczynski of exploiting what happened for his political benefit. .