Jerzy Slavomir Mac, a journalist with the weekly “Wprost”, has been missing since 27 August 1996. At 5pm in Warsaw, he left the newspaper’s editorial office, leaving his computer on and without having taken his identity card. Two days later, after Mac had failed to show up at either his home or the newspaper’s office, […]
Jerzy Slavomir Mac, a journalist with the weekly “Wprost”, has
been missing since 27 August 1996. At 5pm in Warsaw, he left the
newspaper’s editorial office, leaving his computer on and without
having taken his identity card. Two days later, after Mac had
failed to show up at either his home or the newspaper’s office,
his disappearance was reported to the police. An investigation
was promptly opened into his case.
Mac, known for his disclosure that former Prime Minister Josef
Oleksy was suspected of having been a Russian spy, has been the
victim of several incidents of harassment. In early 1996, he
received anonymous telephone calls demanding that he cease his
investigative work. On 2 February, his apartment door was set
ablaze.
Police are exploring two possible leads in Mac’s disappearance:
one, that it is linked to some kind of political vengeance for
his stories on Oleksy; and, two, that it relates to articles by
Mac on certain criminal elements.
