Walesa sues president over spy row

27th November 2009

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A bitter and seething feud between Lech Walesa and President Lech Kaczynski found its way to court last week with the Solidarity icon suing the nation’s leader for libel.

Their lawyers faced off in a Warsaw district court with Mr Walesa demanding an apology and PLN 100,000 in damages for the president saying that he was a communist spy, code-named Bolek, in a television interview last year.

Making his anger over President Kaczynski’s comments evident the former union leader pledged to “get him”, and reminded the world that a court hearing in 2000 had already cleared him of being Bolek.

“When he took office the president vowed to respect the law,” said an angry Mr Walesa. ...

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