In early July, Goniec.pl published a loud investigative study "Polish Football Vodka Union", in which he described that alcohol plays an crucial function in PZPN. It was based on relationships between union activists. Journalists have revealed previously unknown details about spotted events and about how the planet of football mixed with politics.
Journalists discovered that the president of PZPN and the sports ministers sang "Barka" on the spotted house
Before the publication, journalists tried unsuccessfully to get answers from the president of Caesar Kulesza. They sent him 27 questions. For 3 weeks they were given assurances that answers would come, but yet only a laconic message came instead.
The strongest point of the material was a description of the recording from a private event from the end of 2021. According to the service informers, it took place in the apartment, and the video shows Kulesza in the company of the politicians of the United Right: then Minister of athletics Kamil Bortniczuk and his deputy, Luke Mejza.
Several men, holding on to their arms, were to stone and sing the spiritual song "Barka".
Caesary Kulesza denied and threatened to court. "Events never happened"
It was only after the publication of the study that Cezary Kulesza reacted and powerfully replied to the charges. He described them as "talking" and announced that he would go to court to defend his name. PZPN has issued a request to the editor to correct, demanding that statements be published that, for example, "in a relation vodka plays a key role" is simply a lie.
In a conversation with the "Sport Review", the president further questioned the existence of the recording, which was 1 of the main evidence in the text. "The question is, why are these photos and recordings not presented? The answer is simple: specified materials do not be due to the fact that the events described never took place," he argued, accusing journalists of missing the truth.
"The Bishop" yet published a recording that supposedly did not exist
After accusations of lying and deficiency of integrity, The Bishop published a fragment of the video. As the journalists explained in the article, they initially refused to do so due to the private nature of the gathering and the fact that individual might feel offended by spiritual content.
However, in a situation where the president of PZP publically questioned their findings, they considered that they had to show evidence and defend their credibility. And we can see and hear that it truly was as they described.
Editor-in-chief of "Gossip" Janusz Schwertner commented on the substance without biting his tongue. "I do not know why president Kulesza publically lied that the event we described - at which he sang 'Barka' with PiS politicians - did not happen. We must not let specified a blow to our credibility and our journalists. We compose the fact and we are not afraid of any lawsuits," he wrote on the X portal.
The video, which has just seen the light of day and is slow becoming a viral on social media, not only confirmed the journalists' version. He besides showed very close relations of the PZPN with the leading politicians of the erstwhile power.
