The private conservative TV Republika TV channel began to insist that migrants should be sent to Auschwitz, as well as tattooed and chipped in Poland.
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Foreign journalists pointed out that extremely ambiguous statements about migrants were first made on the TV Republika channel.
It was there that the debate on asylum reform in the European Union, which is designed to address the problem of uncontrolled illegal migration, took place.
The harshest statement on this matter was made by Jan Pietrzak, a satirist and actor.
We have barracks for immigrants: in Auschwitz, Majdanek, Treblinka, Stutthof, said Pietrzak, listing the concentration and death camps that operated in occupied Poland during World War II.
The actor later noted that what he had said was only a "joke".
However, Marek Krol, the ex-editor of the Polish weekly Wprost, also made similar proposals.
He began to argue that migrants could be "chipped like dogs", but it would be "cheaper" to tattoo their numbers on their left arm.
According to the program director of TV Republika Michal Rachon, his channel "is the home of freedom of speech, but also a place of respect for every person".
How the Polish authorities reacted to scandalous proposals regarding migrants
Donald Tusk, the Prime Minister of Poland, was one of the first to criticise these calls.
He described these as outbreaks of xenophobia, noting that they were the result of encouragement from the previous right-wing Law and Justice government.
In addition, it has become known that the Polish prosecutor's office has already started an investigation of TV Republika.
The media also faced a boycott from advertisers. For example, IKEA Carrefour and MasterCard have turned away from it.
In the eight years it has been in power, Law and Justice has turned taxpayer-funded state television into a platform for programmes that view mass migration to Europe as an existential threat. State media broadcast conspiracy theories, as well as anti-Semitic and homophobic content and attacks on PiS opponents.
