PM Tusk hits out at ABW

28th May 2011

The website is renowned for its satirical take on politics

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The Prime Minister has criticised the Polish secret services after they launched a dawn raid on the flat belonging to the owner of a satirical website known for making fun of the president.

Donald Tusk said the ABW officers had been “overzealous” in their operation against Robert Frycz, who runs the AntyKomor.pl website, adding that they had “responded inadequately to the situation”.

The eager agents of law and order had gone into action owing to Mr Frycz apparently defaming the office of the president, an offence that can carry a three-year prison sentence in Poland.

But the Prime Minister said that the raid, carried out in the town of Tomasz Mazowiecki, had called into q ...

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