Convicted PiS MPs Mariusz Kaminski and Macie Vesik were taken to the police station at ul. Grenadiers in Warsaw and then transferred to a detention center in the Grohów district of Warsaw.
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As he put it Television Republic proxy Maciej Wąsik Lawyer Janusz Wojniecki, detained PiS MPs, were taken to Warsaw VII District Police Headquarters, ul. grenadiers. Before that, 22 convicted MPs were taken from the police station in the Warsaw-Grokhov Detention Center.
Kaminski and Wąsik are already behind bars
According to RMF fm reporter Anna Zakrzewska, who was outside the police station, a crowd of Kaminski and Vesic supporters gathered in front of the building. Demonstrators shouted “political prisoners” and “down with communism”.
How were Kaminski and Vesik arrested?
Convicted politicians were at 11 on Tuesday Presidential Palace. Officially, Kaminski and Vesik took part there in the appointment ceremony of the new advisors of the head of state: Stanislav Zharin and Blazej Poboj.
A few hours later, at 15:00, the deputies made a statement in the courtyard of the building. They announced that they were not hiding and that they were going to participate in the rally organized by PiS on January 11.
There were about 19 reports about that President Andrzej Duda He left the presidential palace and went to meet Sviatlana Tsykhanuskaya. PiS politicians were not supposed to be in the column, which meant that they remained in the building without the company of the head of state. “The President went to the Belvedere to meet with Sviatlana Tsykhanuskaya and the Belarusian public. The police are watching the palace. My source: there were no “special guests” in the cars of the convoy. By the way, at what time…” – commented Onet journalist on the X platform, Kamil Dzyubka.
After a while, it became clear that the officers entered the presidential palace and arrested the deputies there.
What is it about Kaminski and Vesik?
Reminder: at the end of 2023, the Warsaw District Court issued a decision regarding the actions of Mariusz Kaminski and Maciej Vesik in the so-called Land scandal in 2007. PiS politicians were sentenced to two years in prison.
On Monday, the Warsaw-Shrodmiescie District Court said it was prepared production orders Deputies were sentenced to prison. President Andrzej Duda insists his 2015 pardon is binding, though he announced it before the second-instance court ruling.