Bartosz Michalski wrote that some people referring to Michał Janczura's material may not have watched it. According to him, the material did not contain allegations against his publication but presented a broader picture of the case. Michalski emphasized that his materials for Portal Zero and Official Zero were based on the court's judgment and its justification, and reported the court's findings after the hearing, witness testimonies, and document analysis. As he pointed out, the justification noted that the father was aware of the previous interest in the family's situation by the District Court for Warsaw-Żoliborz, and the court took this into account when making its decision. Michalski wrote that the court, the guardian after conducting a home visit, initially also the police, and the court in Żoliborz saw no basis for taking the children away. According to him, before the intervention of the spokesperson, no decision had been made to take the children away, even though—according to Janczura's material—the family had been monitored by various institutions since 2024. Michalski denied that his materials depicted the family as problem-free. He wrote that he quoted a fragment of the justification in which the court took the father's past and his verdict into account. He also defended the decision to hear the family: he stated that the parents had not had the opportunity to present their version earlier, while the spokesperson was appearing in media favorable to her. He added that the spokesperson could also respond in his materials, and her statement was quoted in full. According to Michalski, Janczura did not resolve whether the court's decision was correct but pointed to chaos and a lack of information flow between institutions. Michalski wrote that he did not claim that the spokesperson should not react to a parent yelling at a child; his objections concerned adherence to procedures and acting regardless of institutions’ decisions. Michalski added that both the court and Janczura noted the composition of people present during the weekend meeting at the police headquarters. As it appeared, according to him, from the justification, the policewoman testified that in her several years of career, she encountered such extraordinary actions against one family for the first time. He also emphasized that it was the court, not he or Channel Zero, that assessed the actions of Hanna Horna-Cieślak as "institutional violence" and considered that the actions of state institutions initiated were grossly disproportionate to the event. #sprawiedliwość #rodzina #media (translated)
