The Sejm decided on detention for Zbigniew Ziobro

Zbigniew Ziobro He did not appear before the Commission for the PEGASUS, and on January 31, despite the police forced to lead to the Sejm He arrived at the meeting when the commission has already finished the meeting. The investigation commission, through the Prosecutor General, sent a request to apply a detention center to 30 days towards the former Minister of Justice, the Prosecutor General to lead to his interrogation.

239 deputies voted for the request to repeal the immunity of Ziobra and consent to the arrest of up to 30 days, 194, no one abstained.

Ziobro, who spoke during the application, spoke about “ostentatiousness and insolence in breaking the law” by the rulers. He argued that, by virtue of the Constitutional Tribunal's decision, the Pegasus Committee was banned. – As a lawyer, as a former prosecutor general, as a former minister of justice, I could not go to agenda that this committee ceased to be legal – he added.

– They deliberately pledged a trap on me (…) to put it in a man's prison, thanks to this trap. Not because I persistently evaded the delivery (to the commission) by the relevant services to the Sejm, because I did not avoid, on the contrary, just to find an excuse to close me as a political opponent – said Ziobro.

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Earlier, the regulatory committee, deputy and immunity matters decided to submit a proposal to the Sejm to accept the application.

The MP may not be arrested without the consent of the Sejm, i.e. without lifting his immunity in a given case. After such an agreement, the application regarding the arrest goes to a court that makes a decision in this case.

The PEGASUS inquiry commission examines the legality, correctness and purposefulness of activities undertaken using this software, including By the government, special services and the police from November 2015 to November 2023, the Commission is also to determine who was responsible for the purchase of Pegasus and similar tools for Polish authorities.