Deputy Speaker of the Sejm Piotr Zgorzelski said that “cattle were brought to the Polish-Belarusian border” in order to “destabilize the situation.” These words were commented by the Speaker of the Sejm, Szymon Hołownia. – People should generally not be called cattle. If you dehumanize people, you move them to another category, he said. He assessed that Zgorzelski had “gone too far”.
Deputy Speaker of the Sejm from the Third Way – PSL Piotr Zgorzelski was a guest of Polsat News on Sunday, where politicians discussed, among other things, Poland's security and possible changes in visa law. – We have to do everything as a state (…) because we are a frontline country. Today, I'm sorry, so to speak, these cattle, which were brought in to force our borders, for the sole purpose of destabilizing the situation, must simply know that they will not go unpunished, as it was until recently, he said.
Piotr ZgorzelskiPAP/Leszek Szymański
Hołownia: Zgorzelski has gone too far
The words about “cattle” caused controversy. On Monday, journalists asked the Speaker of the Sejm about this statement Szymon Hołownia. – That's not a word I would ever use. No one should be called cattle, regardless of their ethical, moral status and behavior, he emphasized.
– People should generally not be called cattle. If you dehumanize people, you move into a different category, where you can do to people what you sometimes do to animals, he said.
– I think that Marshal Zgorzelski went one bridge too far, that he got a little carried away in his emotions – commented Hołownia.
However, the Marshal assessed that Zgorzelski said very precisely who he was thinking about. – He thinks about these bandits and that's what I call them. That is, bandits who try to beat Polish soldiers and shoot them, he explained.
– However, I generally believe that such words should not be used towards people and that it was a highly unfortunate formulation – concluded the Marshal.
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