Polish prosecutors drop Kaczynski 'potato' libel case

0 Comments | AFP, December, 2007

WARSAW (AFP) — Polish prosecutors have dropped a libel investigation against a German newspaper that likened President Lech Kaczynski to a potato, a spokeswoman confirmed Friday.

Katarzyna Szeska from Warsaw regional prosecutor's office, told AFP that the case had been closed last week due to "lack of evidence."

The left-wing Berlin-based Tageszeitung daily stirred controversy in June 2006 with a satirical article dubbing Poland's twin leaders, President Lech Kaczynski and then Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski as "Poland's new potatoes."

The article was part of a series entitled, "the villains who rule the world."

The Kaczynskis' conservative Law and Justice party, which was then at the helm of the Polish government, was swift to launch a formal...