The death of Barbara Skrzypek, a longtime co-worker of Jarosław Kaczyński, has become the axis of political dispute. PiS politicians point to the circumstances of her interrogation at the prosecutor's office, suggesting that it may have affected her health. The prosecution rejects these allegations and announces legal steps towards those who spread specified suggestions.
PiS politicians published a message on Sunday by Krzysztof Gotkowicz, who was a proxy for Barbara Skrzypek. The lawyer reported that the prosecutor refused to let him to audition, although he pointed to the Violin's sick health.
Barbara Skrzypek, longtime co-worker of PiS president Jarosław Kaczyński died on Saturday. Confirming this information on TV, the Republic of Kaczyński suggested that prosecutors were liable for her death who interviewed her in the Silver company investigation on Wednesday. The proceeding was conducted by Proc. Ewa Wrzosek.
Herzeszek stated on Sunday that she would take "decisive and adequate legal steps" towards those liable for criminal threats and claims that Barbara Skrzypek's death was connected with questioning her as a witness. On Saturday, besides on the X Wrzosek portal, she wrote that she was profoundly moved by the information about Barbara Skrzypek's death, she assured that "the proceeding of Barbara Skrzypek took place on Wednesday, 12 March 2025, at the office of the territory Attorney's Office in Warsaw, with all advanced standards of procedural action."
On Sunday, PiS politicians, among others, the head of the PiS club Mariusz Błaszczak, organization spokesperson Rafał Bochenek, b. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, published on platform X a message by Krzysztof Gotkowicz, a typical of Barbara Skrzypek.
Gotkowicz stated in him that "On 12 March 2025 at 9.45 p.m. he appeared with Mrs. Barbara Skrzypek in the territory Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw, as a witness lawyer in the alleged 2 towers case".
"The prosecutor conducting the interrogation inactive in the hallway refused to let me to act. Then after entering the cabinet, I justified the request for a lawyer to participate as a proxy. Among another things, I pointed to the mediocre wellness of the witness and the presence of 2 notifying attorneys, which in addition could be read by the witness as an component of pressure. After my speech Barbara Skrzypek besides presented her wellness problems in person" - we read in a message signed by Gotkowicz.
He added that "after another prosecutor's refusal, not permitted to conduct the interrogation, at around 10.30 p.m. left the prosecutor's office". "Then I waited for a witness close the Public Prosecutor's Office until the end of the action at 3 p.m." - noted Gotkowicz.
A spokesperson for the Warsaw D.A. Piotr Skiba stated on Saturday that the proceeding of Barbara Skrzypek "walked in a very friendly atmosphere".
"We are very sorry about the death of Barbara Skrzypek," said Piotr Antoni Skiba in a conversation with PAP on Saturday evening. "However, we see no connection between interrogation and death, and in the case of duplication of specified communicative indicating the causal link between the fact of the proceeding and the effect in the form of death. The territory Attorney's Office in Warsaw will go on a civil-law road to defend the good name of the prosecutor," he said.
"In view of the information about Barbara Skrzypek's death that was interrogated in the territory Attorney's Office in Warsaw on the last Wednesday of 12 March, I inform that the proceeding took place in a very good atmosphere, it took more than 4 hours, during the proceeding there was a break for rest," said Prok. Skiba.
As he besides reported, "Barbara Skrzypek appeared for questioning in the presence of a witness lawyer who was not allowed to act, due to the fact that Barbara Skrzypek's legal interest did not require the participation of a proxy".
The territory Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw in early February launched an investigation into bringing Austrian businessman Gerald Birgfellner to an unfavourable regulation with a property of no little than EUR 1.3 million by misleading him. It is simply a substance of plans to build 2 skyscrapers on the Warsaw plot, belonging to the related Silver Company (a associate of the Lech Kaczyński Institute, on whose board Barbara Skrzypek sat). The case is handled by Proc. Ewa Wrzosek.
Roman Gierty, 1 of Birgfellner's attorneys, was besides informed about the investigation of Silver. Gierty said that on 7 February the Warsaw territory Attorney's Office initiated an investigation into granting "a property benefit in the form of money in the amount of PLN 50 1000 to the Supervisory Board of the Lech Kaczyński Institute Foundation in exchange for abuse of the powers conferred on it". This reopening of the 2019 case, in which the investigation of Birgfellowner's notification was then denied, which claimed that Kaczyński was going to urge him to bribe.
In mid-January, the National Prosecutor's Office - after an audit of 200 investigations from the time of the Law and Justice Government - reported that it was essential to issue a decision to initiate the investigation in order to build 2 skyscrapers on the Silver Land owned by the company. (PAP)
