Popular Polish writer and journalist Jakub Zulczyk faces up to three years in prison for calling President Andrzej Duda a “moron” in a Facebook post in November. The reports it Bbc.
In Poland, insulting heads of state and religion is considered a crime. Zulczyk attacked the president on US election night accusing him of not understanding the American electoral process after he wrote a congratulatory tweet to Joe Biden for the campaign without complimenting him yet on the victory because for that he had to wait for “the election of the constituency “.
Commenting on the Facebook post, Zulczyk, author of a novel turned into a popular TV series for Hbo Europe, wrote that he had studied American politics for years and had never heard of the “election of the constituency.” And then «Joe Biden is the 46th president of the United States. Andrzej Duda is a moron ». For the prosecutor he called the comment “offensive” and “unacceptable”.
Poland has nine different insult laws, all of which include imprisonment between sentences. For example, you can end up in prison not only for having offended the Polish flag but also that of other countries.