Bogdan Swieczkowski
Investigation into alleged coup attempt
February 7, 2025
Constitutional Court Chairman Bogdan Swieczkowski announced that Deputy Prosecutor General Michal Ostrowski, following his notification, has launched an investigation into the suspected commission of a coup d’etat by, among others, Prime Minister Donald Tusk, the Speakers of the Sejm and Senate, the head of the Government Legislation Center (RCL), and some judges and prosecutors.
Swieczkowski said he signed a 60-page notice of reasonable suspicion of a crime in late January. As he stressed, the crime is that, since December 13, these individuals have been acting “in an organized criminal group with the aim of changing the constitutional system of the Republic of Poland and acting to achieve or stop the activities of the Constitutional Court and other constitutional bodies, including the National Council of the Judiciary (KRS) and the Supreme Court.”
According to Swieczkowski, the current government has led to the undermining of the status of the legal system of the Supreme Court’s Extraordinary Control and Public Affairs Chamber and the Supreme Court judges, to the cessation of the RCL’s publication of decisions of the Constitutional Court undermining the status of the current judges of the Court, and to the adoption of the Sejm’s resolution of last March 6 on removing the effects of the constitutional crisis of 2015-2023 in the context of the functioning of the Constitutional Court.
“We are talking here about the crime of a coup d’etat,” Swieczkowski stressed. He added that due to the importance of the notice and the suspects, including Prime Minister Tusk and Justice Minister Adam Bodnar, he requested that the deputy attorney general lead the investigation.
“Yesterday I was questioned as a notified,” he added.
Source: www.warsawvoice.pl
