Leszek Piotrowski

Leszek Piotrowski (born July 16, 1938 in Rybnik , † March 2, 2010 in Ciechocinek ) was a Polish lawyer and politician who was a member of both the Senate and the Sejm .

biography

His father, Władysław Piotrowski, was a lawyer and during the Second World War an officer in the Home Army and a delegate to the government in exile as a representative of the interests of Upper Silesia .

After attending school, he himself studied law at the University of Wroclaw and after completing his studies was initially a judge and later a lawyer . As such, he was a defender of opposition politicians and dissidents like Adam Słomka at the time of the People's Republic of Poland . After martial law was imposed in Poland , he was arrested himself on July 22, 1982 and was then imprisoned in Katowice , Strzelce Opolskie , Uherce Mineralne and Załęże .

After the end of communism and the establishment of the Third Polish Republic , he became a member of the Senate in 1989, where he represented the interests of the Katowice Voivodeship as a member of the Solidarność Citizens' Committee and the Porozumienie Obywatelskie Centrum (Alliance of the Civil Center) until 1993 .

On October 20, 1997 he became a member of the Sejm and was a member of the Sejm as a representative of Akcja Wyborcza Solidarność (AWS) until October 18, 2001.

During this time he was State Secretary in the Ministry of Justice in the government of Prime Minister Jerzy Buzek between 1997 and 1999 . As such, he wrote a letter to Prime Minister Buzek in April 1999, in which he criticized Justice Minister Hanna Suchocka and accused her of insufficient supervision of the public prosecutor's office when investigating criminal offenses. He also wrote an article in the daily Gazeta Wyborcza entitled “Olek, never podpisuj!” (Olek, do not sign!) In which he appealed to President Aleksander Kwaśniewski not to sign an amendment to the Criminal Code on child pornography . As a result of his statements, he resigned from the AWS faction within the Porozumienie Polskich Chrześcijańskich Demokratieów (Agreement of the Polish Christian Democrats).

After leaving the Sejm, he resumed his work as a lawyer and was a criminal defense lawyer in numerous well-known lawsuits in Poland such as the crackdown on the strike at the Wujek colliery or against Ryszard Bogucki, who was accused of complicity in the murder of gang bosses Andrzej Kolikowski and Mark M . Has been sentenced to 25 years in prison.

In the 2005 parliamentary elections , he ran unsuccessfully for the Partia Centrum for a seat in the Senate. In 2006, however, he was elected as a candidate of the Polish Peasant Party (PSL) to be a member of the Sejmik of the Silesian Voivodeship and represented Rybnik there. In the parliamentary elections in 2007 , however, he ran again unsuccessfully for the Sejm as an independent candidate on the list of the PSL in the constituency of Katowice, as well as in the 2009 elections to the European Parliament .

Piotrowski was last defender and the husband of the former Bauministerin Barbara Blida that on 25 April 2007 with the weapon her husband's suicide committed. He stated that officials of the Law and Justice party ( Prawo i Sprawiedliwość ) such as Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro and perhaps Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński were responsible for the death of Barbara Blida .

Web links

• GAZETA: Leszek Piotrowski nie żyje (March 2, 2010)
• TVN24: BYŁY WICEMINISTER SPRAWIEDLIWOŚCI ZMARŁ DZIŚ RANO. Nie żyje Leszek Piotrowski (March 2, 2010)
• RZECZPOSPOLITA: Zmarł Leszek Piotrowski (March 2, 2010)