The prosecutor's office will take on the high-profile investigation concerning the son of the former president of TVP Jacek Kurski for the third time. Zdzisław K. was accused by the daughter of friends of the Kurski family of multiple rapes, which he allegedly committed over three consecutive years in a forester's lodge, where both families spent their holidays. The drama began when the girl was nine. The prosecutor's office in Gdańsk had previously dismissed the proceedings in this case twice.
Information that the District Prosecutor's Office in Gdańsk accepted the request of Magda N.'s attorney to reopen the case in August this year the investigation concerning Zdzisław K., which was discontinued twice in the past“Gazeta Wyborcza” reported.
This time the investigation was entrusted to the District Prosecutor’s Office in Toruń.
Two discontinued investigations
Starting in 2010, during three consecutive holidays, Magdalena N. was allegedly brutally molested by then adult Zdzisław K. in the “Danielówka” forester's lodge, near Malbork. When the acts began, she was 9 years old.
The man's father, who was then a Law and Justice MEP, employed Magdalena's father as an assistant. They spent holidays together.
As a result of the nightmare experiences, the teenager began to cut herself. Her parents sent her to a psychiatrist. The patient revealed the causes of her auto-aggression and the identity of the perpetrator during therapy in the summer of 2015. The doctors notified the family court in Gdańsk and Magda's mother, who filed a report with the Gdańsk prosecutor's office.
The girl was then questioned for the first time. “Due to the lack of sufficient data to justify the suspicion of committing a prohibited act,” the investigation was discontinued by the prosecutor's office in 2017. The investigators' doubts, as reported by the prosecutor's office, were raised by the very fact of committing a prohibited act.
The girl's mother's attorney appealed against this decision to the court in Kwidzyn, which found that it was unfair and that the Gdańsk prosecutor's office had approached the evidence “selectively”.
The girl was not interrogated in the second investigation. However, Jacek Kurskiwho assured that his son would not be capable of the acts he is suspected of. He also argued that the whole case was an element of revenge by the girl's father, whom Kurski dismissed from his position as an assistant to the MEP. However, the suspect denied any molestation during questioning.
In 2019, the proceedings were discontinued again, and the injured party did not file either a complaint against the prosecutor’s decision or a so-called subsidiary accusation, which would have allowed the case to be continued.
Both dismissals took place at a time when the Prosecutor General was Zbigniew Ziobro.
Statements of Kurski and prosecutor's office
In July 2020, the case was described in more detail by “Gazeta Wyborcza” in the report “Magdy's Nightmare in the Forester's House” by Piotr Głuchowski and Żaneta Gotowalska. In response to the text, Jacek Kurski and his son posted their statements on social media. Jacek Kurski noted that in the case described by the newspaper “nothing adds up”.
“The fabricated allegations in the testimonies come from the period 2006-2012, the GW text already mentions the years 2009-2012, they were 'remembered' in 2015 and are being used for a political attack in 2020. This attack has a clearly political goal. The target of this attack is me,” he wrote.
Zdzisław K. denied having an “intimate relationship” with Magdalena. He called their relationship “brotherly.” The man later responded by filing a lawsuit against Magda and the editorial office, demanding an apology and compensation. However, in July 2024, the court rejected his claims, finding the information provided to be true.
The District Prosecutor's Office in Gdańsk also issued a statement in response to the Gazeta Wyborcza article. Grażyna Wawryniuk, spokeswoman for the Prosecutor's Office, who as a prosecutor led the investigation twice, called the Gazeta Wyborcza publication “unreliable and based on manipulation”.
– The drastic events described in it were not the subject of the discontinued investigation by the prosecutor's office, because the heroine of the publication did not mention them either during the proceedings or in the appeal filed to the court against the discontinuation of the investigation. The decision to discontinue the investigation was influenced primarily by the opinions of experts – wrote the prosecutor, and not “any interference by either of the two Prosecutors General who held office when the investigation was conducted”.
She pointed out that Magdalena N., when questioned by an independent court in the presence of an expert psychologist, “did not mention sexual intercourse with the person concerned by the notification.
– She only mentioned events from about six years ago, which cannot be clearly interpreted as acts of a sexual nature – explained Wawryniuk.
In a letter dated July 28, 2020 (after the publication of “GW”), the injured party Magdalena, already an adult, notified the District Prosecutor's Office of Gdańsk-Wrzeszcz about her multiple rape. “At the same time, she stated that she was filing a motion to prosecute the indicated perpetrator of the acts. The then Deputy District Prosecutor in Gdańsk, in a letter dated October 2, 2020, informed the injured party that the proceedings in this regard had already been conducted and had been legally concluded by a decision of June 10, 2019,” said prosecutor Mariusz Marciniak, spokesman for the Regional Prosecutor's Office in Gdańsk.
The case is being investigated by the prosecutor’s office in Toruń.
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