Writer who called Polish president ‘a moron’ should not be punished, court rules – POLITICO

The Polish Supreme Court docket on Tuesday backed an earlier ruling {that a} author who known as President Andrzej Duda a “moron” on social media mustn’t face prosecution.

Insulting the top of state is against the law in Poland.

Dismissing an attraction from the Nationwide Prosecutor’s Workplace as “manifestly unfounded,” the courtroom mentioned the social media put up by author Jakub Żulczyk didn’t represent against the law, and triggered negligible hurt, in accordance with Polish outlet Onet.

Żulczyk mentioned he was relieved at being “lastly acquitted.”

“I’m very blissful that FINALLY we will deliver all this to an finish,” he wrote on Fb.

In Poland, insulting the president — of Poland and even of one other nation — is punishable by as much as three years in jail.

In November 2020, after the U.S. presidential election, Żulczyk took to Fb to complain about the best way Duda congratulated then-President-elect Joe Biden on his victory.

Duda had mentioned he was awaiting Biden’s “nomination by the Electoral School,” despite the fact that it was already clear that he would win the election, and different heads of state had already congratulated him.

“Joe Biden is the forty sixth president of america. Andrzej Duda is a moron,” Żulczyk wrote.