UPDATE - Police investigations continue into the brutal assault of an actress who appeared in a Law and Justice TV campaign ad.
The actress says she was brutally assaulted in front of her house by a group of young men last Saturday.
Anna Cugier-Kotka, who first appeared in an advertisement for the Civic Platform party in 2007 turned up in the central role in an advert for the opposition Law and Justice, for the European parliamentary elections last Sunday.
Law and Justice leader Jarosław Kaczyński has called the incident “politically inspired” and urged Prime Minister Donald Tusk to find and punish those responsible for the assault.
Minister of Internal Affairs Grzegorz Schetyna pledged that the case will be thoroughly investigated.“The case is already political, or is to be one as Jarosław Kaczyński so wishes,” he said/ “I guarantee it will be scrutinized to the finest detail and I will see to it that the Warsaw police succeeds in doing so. It is in our interests to ensure that such accusations are not repeated.”
It is disputed when and if the actress reported the incident to the police and what evidence she gave to them. It is alleged that she changed the story of the attack – at first alleging one person attacked her then changing the number to three or four. (ek/pg)
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