Walesa sues Kaczynski over spy claims

8th May 2009

"He (President Kaczynski) promised that he'll honour the law, and the court's verdict, but he breaks them and encourages others to break them.”

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Former Solidarity leader and Nobel prize winner Lech Walesa is suing President Lech Kaczynski for accusing him of working for the communist secret services in the eighties, Walesa's office said Tuesday.

Former Solidarity leader and Nobel prize winner Lech Walesa is suing President Lech Kaczynski for accusing him of working for the communist secret services in the eighties, Walesa's office said Tuesday.

Walesa is demanding an apology, and PLN 100,000, the Polish Press Agency (PAP) reported, over a comment Kaczynski made on Polsat television in June last year in which he supported accusations made in a book that Walesa had been a spy under the code-name of Bolek.

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