Alarm after alarm on Republika TV. Sakiewicz: It was an organized action
False alarms have been paralyzing TV Republika for a week. Tomasz Sakiewicz, president of the station, shared his theory on this subject in the media.
For several days, TV Republika and its journalists have been dealing with a series of false reports that involve the police, fire brigade and ambulance services. The services intervened both at the station’s headquarters and at the private addresses of well-known publicists and station hosts.
False alarms hit TV Republika. Sakiewicz about the services’ interventions
The first alarm appeared on May 13. The services came to the editorial office after reporting a bomb. The next ones concerned alleged suicide attempts, a terrorist with a shahid belt and the discovery of a body. The people affected by the interventions included: Tomasz Sakiewicz, Michał Rachoń, Katarzyna Gójska and Adrian Klarenbach.
– In the case of Michał Rachoń, Kasia Gójska and me, the services were called twice, although the first time they were not confirmed. Moreover, for the second time the services entered with a search warrant – revealed Tomasz Sakiewicz in an interview with “Rzeczpospolita”.
The police entered Sakiewicz’s apartment
The greatest controversy was caused by the police intervention in Tomasz Sakiewicz’s apartment. The head of Republika TV claims that the officers entered the premises without visible ID tags, and his assistant was handcuffed.
According to Sakiewicz, the police were looking for a child who was supposed to be at the given address. The report turned out to be false. The case will be handled by the prosecutor’s office, which will also examine the behavior of the officers during the intervention.
Another false report occurred on Saturday, when the TV Republika contact address received information about an allegedly planted bomb.
– This e-mail was nothing more than a primitive, inept attempt to divert the whole issue of harassing us onto false, Russian tracks. It contained Russian words that were intended to pretend that the author was the Russian services. We predicted this in advance and we were not wrong – says Sakiewicz in an interview with “Rzeczpospolita”.
Sakiewicz: everything happens after TV Republika announced cooperation with Ziobro
Tomasz Sakiewicz believes that the wave of reports may be related to the announcement of the station’s cooperation with Zbigniew Ziobro. The former justice minister became a commentator for Republic in the US after escaping from Hungary.
The head of the station suggests that the activities were organized and targeted at the television community. According to Sakiewicz, they had knowledge that could not be found publicly. One of the reports concerned the 13-year-old son of a TV Republika co-worker, who is not a public figure, unlike several of the station’s stars.
Investigators are investigating a cybercrime trail
The prosecutor’s office initiated an investigation, and the police admit that the reports could have been part of a broader cybercrime operation. Officers of the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Central Bureau for Combating Cybercrime were involved in the case.
As it was determined, the perpetrators were to impersonate random people and use hijacked e-mail boxes. Investigators are also analyzing the possibility of involvement of the so-called “eastern thread”.
