At the beginning of November 2021, the media went viral due to a post that Piotr Zelt posted on Facebook. A photo of the Border Guard spokeswoman appeared there Anna Michalska and the caption: “Mrs. 'spokesman' of the Border Guard, the face of the brutal, bandit standards of the PiS state.” The woman felt defamed and took the matter to court. The trial started in October 2023.
There is a decision of the District Court in Warsaw. What's next for Piotr Zelt?
At the beginning of March, the District Court Warsaw-Mokotów issued a judgment in the case of the accused of defamation and insult Piotr Zelt. The court then found the actor innocent. This verdict did not become final due to the fact that the prosecutor's office and the guard's representative appealed. The case was therefore brought to District Court in Warsaw. As recently reported by tvn24.pl, the presiding judge is Grażyna Puchalska decided to annul the judgment and the district court will review the proceedings again.
Piotr Zelt pleads not guilty
Alone Piotr Zelt he doesn't feel guilty. – There is no insult there, I don't think I committed any offense. I said that your spokesman is the face of the authorities that pursue barbaric policies, and my words did not refer to uniformbut they were my opinion about this lady's attitude towards the media and citizens – he commented in an interview with Plejada.
This is not the only case of this type in Poland. She was also once accused of defaming the Border Guard Barbara Kurdej-Szatan. She posted on social media in which she called Border Guard officers “machines without heart and brain, blindly following orders.” The court also discontinued the proceedings in this case. In March this year, the actress revealed what Ziobro was supposed to do after the scandal with the Border Guard. It turns out that although the case was discontinued, Zbigniew Ziobro allegedly intervened in this matter after the change of government. “I said that it had long been legally discontinued (although Ziobro filed a complaint after the elections, making life as difficult as possible…),” the actress wrote on Instagram.