We have already reported in our pages on the case of Ewelina Niewiadomska from Bolesławiec. When it turned out that the mother had won her battle for her child before a French court, the newspaper “Fakt” became interested in the story. The tabloid’s journalist contacted Ms Ewelina by telephone. “It seems that he listened to my story very selectively,” says Emilka’s mother regretfully. “He twisted everything.”

What is inaccurate in the—very short, after all!—“Fakt” article? A whole lot of things. The newspaper wrote that Jimmi C. left the woman from Bolesławiec in 2013, when she was already at an advanced stage of pregnancy. The problem is that the couple only met that year. The result? The national newspaper’s article suggests that Ms Ewelina was pregnant for... 12 months.

Emilka’s age is also wrong. “Fakt” wrote that Ms Ewelina’s daughter is four years old. In reality, the little girl from Bolesławiec will not reach that age until October this year. What is more, at one point the article’s author calls Ms Ewelina Jimmie C.’s wife, which is a blatant falsehood because... the couple never married.

The tabloid also writes that the Frenchman, Emilka’s father, was aggressive from the outset. “That is not how it was,” our interlocutor corrects the account. “He left me because, as he claimed, his jockeying career was more important to him than family life. He was aggressive, yes, but mainly when he came to Poland to visit the child.”

According to Ms Ewelina, the text published in “Fakt” also suggests that her “escape” from France had been planned. As the woman from Bolesławiec assures us, things were different: “I had no support in France; I was completely alone in a foreign country, so I concluded that I should return to Bolesławiec because my Polish family had supported me greatly all along.”

According to the resident of the City of Ceramics, “Fakt” also exaggerated the Ministry of Justice’s role in Ms Ewelina’s court victory. The truth is somewhat more complicated. For four months, the woman from Bolesławiec wrote to the ministry, including to Minister Zbigniew Ziobro, and even to the Polish Embassy. At the time, she was dismissed with a standard bureaucratic formula. Only an intervention by Ms Ewelina’s brother led Judge Agnieszka Matysek of the Department of International Cooperation and Human Rights to take an interest in the case, enabling the woman from Bolesławiec to obtain state-funded legal assistance in France. In Emilka’s mother’s opinion, the greatest contribution to her victory before the French court was made by... a French lawyer, who prepared the appeal brilliantly.

In a short article, the tabloid journalist made a host of factual errors. It is a miracle that he did not write that Ms Ewelina had lost the case. What is more, the article’s subject did not even have an opportunity to authorize her statements, despite clearly saying that she wanted to see the text before publication.

Ms Ewelina’s mother learned that the piece had appeared in “Fakt” from... a neighbor. And the person concerned herself learned it from her own mother.

You can find the Bolesławiec woman’s account, presented accurately and authorized in full, in our article A Frenchman Wants to Take Her 3-Year-Old Daughter Away. Mother: I Won’t Let Emilka Be Harmed!