A boxer, a football hooligan and a security guard at the Grand Hotel. Onet has reached 2 witnesses who confirm that while working at the hotel by the pier in Sopot, Karol Nawrocki, together with a network of other security workers, was supposed to be organizing prostitutes for clients.
The presidential candidate supported by PiS, Karol Nawrocki, announced that he will sue Onet in a civil procedure for the protection of personal rights and file a private indictment in criminal procedure for “a pack of lies and hatred”. This concerns the portal's publication entitled “Karol Nawrocki and the Secrets of the Grand Hotel”.
There is no shortage of dark sides to the past of the presidential candidate supported by PiS, Karol Nawrocki. As President Andrzej Duda put it, “some people's youth was more turbulent, others' less so.” He stated that one should look at “what a person is today.”
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The Onet editorial team has reached 2 witnesses who confirm and describe how the scheme of delivering prostitutes to the Grand Hotel in Sopot operated, among others through Karol Nawrocki. “Hotel guests chose prostitutes from social websites, such as the now defunct Odloty.pl – they were encouraged to do so by security guards, showing offers on a computer in a public room with computers for hotel guests opposite the reception. Then Nawrocki or one of his people called the “coordinator” who brought these women to the hotel” – we read in Onet.
As it was added, the pimp's arrangement with the security was essential – without it, the prostitutes would not have been allowed into the hotel. Onet's interlocutors indicate that the price of a meeting with a prostitute at Odloty at that time was an average of PLN 100-150, and a maximum of PLN 200. However, the hotel's clients were charged more – anything above that amount was the profit of the security guards, who were in an arrangement with the pimp.
Tusk: Nawrocki's dangerous liaisons are a matter of Poland's reputation
Prime Minister Donald Tusk assessed that the “dangerous liaisons” of Karol Nawrocki, a presidential candidate supported by PiS, are not a matter of politics or campaigning, but a matter of Poland's reputation. He also emphasized that he does not foresee a worst-case scenario, such as early parliamentary elections.
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In its report, Onet points out that many people from Nawrocki's circle at that time were pimps, and some, such as Olgierd L., alias “Olo”, controlled the prostitution market in the Tri-City even from prison. (Read more on Onet).
The presidential candidate commented on Onet's publication on X. He stated that “today in Poland the problem is political prostitution, which wants to give Poland away for foreign money.”
He announced that “for this pack of lies and hatred” he will sue Onet in a civil procedure for the protection of personal rights, and will also file a private indictment in criminal procedure. “The media assistants of (Donald) Tusk and (Rafał) Trzaskowski will not take away our victory,” he declared.
Nawrocki was asked by journalists during Monday's rally in Lubartów why the lawsuit against Onet will not be filed in the electoral procedure. In response, the candidate referred the questioners to the provisions of the Electoral Code and his previous posts. “Onet's stupidity” – he assessed at the same time.
According to the Electoral Code, a candidate may file a lawsuit in the electoral procedure if “the election materials distributed, including in the press (…), in particular posters, leaflets and slogans, as well as statements or other forms of election agitation, contain false information”.
The provision refers to “electoral materials” and “electoral agitation”. Courts have already considered lawsuits against the media in electoral procedures several times in previous elections. For example, a year ago in the EP elections, PiS candidate Daniel Obajtek also sued Onet. The court ruled that “it cannot be assumed that the publisher of a press title, a journalist, conducts election agitation during the election campaign by the mere fact of publishing any information concerning parliamentary candidates, if such materials are published during the election campaign”. At that time, the court did not recognize the portal's publication as election agitation also because it was not commissioned by any of the candidates running in the elections and it did not contain any suggestions as to how to vote.
PiS chairman Jarosław Kaczyński in a post on X reminded that Prime Minister Donald Tusk and KO candidate Rafał Trzaskowski “win in prisons”. “This is a contribution to understanding what is happening today in the election campaign, i.e. another repulsive, based on lies, attack on Karol Nawrocki. They have money and access to people who will say anything they need to. And what is the real reason for this action? They want to divert attention from the refusal to take drug tests by Trzaskowski, Nitras and other people” – wrote Kaczyński, referring to Nawrocki's statement, who on Saturday on RMF FM invited his rival to be tested for the presence of drugs and prohibited substances in the body.
Prime Minister: I expect Mr. Nawrocki to immediately apply to the court in the electoral procedure
I expect Mr. Karol Nawrocki to immediately turn to the court in the electoral mode – said Prime Minister Donald Tusk. This concerns Onet's reports that Nawrocki was involved in bringing in prostitutes for guests of the Grand Hotel in Sopot. Nawrocki announced that he will file a civil lawsuit against the editorial office.
On Monday, Prime Minister Donald Tusk was asked on Polsat News whether he was afraid of KO candidate Rafał Trzaskowski losing the presidential election. Tusk said that “today we in Poland are facing a choice that no one would have thought possible just a few years ago.”
“From all sides we hear accounts of events from the life of Karol Nawrocki, but also from Karol Nawrocki's present, which indicate his close ties with the hard criminal world. People who say this, some say it under their name (…) say things about which Mr. Karol Nawrocki does not want to take any legal action. I want this matter to be clear, because people in Poland must finally hear it,” Tusk said.
The Prime Minister said that during the election campaign there is a possibility of going to court, which “will make a decision on this matter within 24 hours.” He added that this will then happen before the elections.
“I expect Mr. Karol Nawrocki to immediately apply to the court in an electoral procedure within 24 hours against editorial offices, portals, individuals under their names who say unequivocal things,” said the Prime Minister.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Monday on Polsat News that he does not want the services to be directly involved in the campaign by checking reports about the past of the PiS-supported presidential candidate Karol Nawrocki. The head of government announced that the services will deal with this after the elections.
When asked whether the past of the PiS-supported candidate should not have been verified by the services, the Prime Minister replied: “Are you sure you are calling me to activate the secret services and the state to search for and verify materials against Mr. Nawrocki?”
“No, this campaign must take place on absolutely fair terms,” Tusk stressed.
In response to the fact that the services had not previously obtained information about Nawrocki published by, among others, the Onet portal, would have been embarrassing for them, the prime minister admitted: “Yes, it would have been embarrassing.”
“The elections will be over – we will check it. I do not want the services to be directly involved in the campaign,” said the head of government.
“Why in civil proceedings?”
The issue of the procedure in which a potential lawsuit should be filed has sparked discussion among politicians. This issue was addressed, for example, by Deputy Minister of Education Katarzyna Lubnauer. “Do you know why in a civil procedure? Because especially after Ziobro's reforms – for eternity never. And it can be withdrawn after the elections. Mr. Karol Nawrocki, you have an electoral procedure, and Poles have the right to a verdict before June 1st,” wrote the 10th Deputy Minister of Education on the platform.
According to the Minister of Sport and Tourism, who is a member of the KO candidate Rafał Trzaskowski's campaign team, Nawrocki proved that he is a coward by filing a civil lawsuit. According to Nitras, a lawsuit in “a civil lawsuit will not even reach the elections”, and in the electoral procedure the verdict would be considered within 24 hours. “But he is afraid. A coward,” the minister wrote on platform X.
“He doesn't want to use the electoral procedure? He admitted that it is true,” said EU Minister Adam Szłapka on October 10, referring to the entry of the candidate supported by PiS.
The leader of the Razem party, Adrian Zandberg, assessed that “such allegations cannot wait for a ruling after the elections”. “Nawrocki should file a lawsuit today in the electoral procedure. If Onet wrote untruth, he should be held accountable even before the elections. And severely. If it is true, these allegations are compromising for the presidential candidate” – assessed the politician.
PiS MPs Krzysztof Szczucki and Przemysław Czarnek responded. “This is exactly what the authors would like. For the lawsuit to be rejected on formal grounds. It must be filed in the usual manner, of course with a request for security,” wrote Szczucki. Czarnek, in turn, noted that “unfortunately, Onet cannot be sued effectively in the election procedure.”
Bielan on Onet's reports on Karol Nawrocki: nothing like that happened
Karol Nawrocki has already spoken out on this subject; nothing of the sort happened – stressed PiS MEP Adam Bielan, asked about Onet's reports that Nawrocki, when he was a security guard at the Grand Hotel in Sopot, “participated in the procedure” of bringing prostitutes to it. These are filthy personal attacks – added Bielan.
MEP Adam Bielan was asked about these reports from Onet at Monday's press conference.
“Karol Nawrocki has spoken out on this subject many times. Nothing of the sort happened,” Bielan stressed.
According to him, the publication of the material is a coordinated attack by institutions associated with Donald Tusk. He added that it is “a series of subsequent, quite vile personal attacks on Karol Nawrocki”. “We are not surprised by this. Institutions associated with Donald Tusk will do everything to prevent Karol Nawrocki from becoming (president)” – the MEP noted.
Earlier, on May 8, Prime Minister Donald Tusk spoke on the subject. “You knew about everything, Jarosław. About the connections with gangsters, about “getting girls” (…) the entire responsibility for this catastrophe falls on you,” Tusk wrote on the X platform.
PiS chairman Jarosław Kaczyński responded by stating that he knew nothing about it, “because it's all just one big lie.” “A disgusting campaign conducted by people from the darkest stars and their representatives, including the media,” he added.
The authors of the article sent questions regarding the reports to the spokeswoman for Karol Nawrocki's campaign. They did not receive a response at the time of publication. (PAP)
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