They were previously sentenced to two years in prison in the so-called “land case.” Both politicians today, January 9, were taken to the police station on Grenadier Street in Warsaw’s Prague district.
“The police received the court order this morning. According to the information I have, the ex-deputies remained in the Presidential Office even before the police received documents from the court… They were detained in accordance with the court order,” Mroczek wrote.
Before this, Prime Minister Donald Tusk, speaking about information about the presence of the defendants in the presidential palace, called on Head of State Andrzej Duda not to obstruct justice. It was also reported that law enforcement officials checked cars leaving the building in search of convicted politicians.
According to journalists, Vonsik and Kaminsky were detained on the territory of the presidential palace at about 19.30. At this time, Duda went to hold a meeting with the leader of the Belarusian opposition Svetlana Tikhanovskaya.
Amid the detention of two Polish politicians, hundreds of protesters gathered in front of the presidential palace on the initiative of the Law and Justice party, of which Kaminski and Wonsik are members, writes Reuters. The crowd chanted “Freedom for political prisoners” and “Shame!”
What preceded
Earlier in December, by a court decision, Polish deputies and former heads of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Central Anti-Corruption Bureau (CBA) Kaminsky and Wonsik were sentenced to 2 years in prison. They were involved in a “land case” in the Masurian voivodeship.
In 2015, a few weeks after PiS took power, Duda pardoned Kaminski, who had been convicted of abuse of power in his previous post as head of Poland’s Central Anti-Corruption Bureau. This allowed him to become Minister of the Interior.
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