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POLAND said today it would drop the prosecution of a journalist who exposed neonazis, but an investigation into his actions will continue.
Piotr Wacowski went undercover to infiltrate a nazi gang whom he filmed celebrating Adolf Hitler’s birthday in woods last year. Broadcaster TVN, which is owned by the US-based Discovery channel, said its employee Mr Wacowski had been ordered to appear and give evidence to the Internal Security Agency investigation.
Lawyers had claimed that the broadcast propagated fascism, but TVN said the planned prosecution was “an attempt to intimidate journalists” and that authorities were angry at their tolerance for fascist groups being exposed.
A fifth of the Polish population perished during the nazi occupation of the second world war, but some Poles collaborated with the nazis in the Holocaust and the ruling Law & Justice Party has sought to ban mentioning the fact. Fascists marched alongside government ministers at the country’s independence day march on November 11.
