Mariusz Kaminski and Mackie Vesik stayed on Tuesday evening They were arrested in the presidential palace, where they stayed at the invitation of President Andrzej Duda. PiS politicians were first taken to the police station at ul. Grenadiers, and then in the Grokhov pre-trial detention center.
According to Gražina Ignacak-Bandić, head of the presidential office, police entered the palace without the president's presence when he went to the Belvedere to meet with Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsykhanuskaia. Officers showed arrest warrants for Kaminski and Vesik. Politicians should have been surprised and not resisted.
“The president got angry”
Wirtualna Polska reports how President Andrzej Duda reacted to the arrest of Kaminski and Vesic. As the informant of the portal says, the politician “got angry”.
– The police waited for the moment when he went to Belvedere and entered. When he wanted to get to the palace quickly, “Action by buswho spoiled it and blocked the exit from the Belvedere… the services there did not work as they should, the question is whether the President was in danger – said one of the President's assistants.
The interlocutor admitted that he did not know whether the former leaders wanted by the police were going to spend the night in the presidential palace. However, he admitted that it was a possibility because there are guest rooms on top of the building.
– Maybe they wanted to stay until January 11, before the PiS march in front of the Seimas. In addition, Vesik was sure that he would take part in the procession.
Another pardon?
The president has already pardoned Kaminski and Vesik once in 2015 in connection with the land scandal. Is it possible that he will do it again? The interlocutor of the portal points out that probably not and “nothing will change in this matter”.
– Tusk probably wanted this and would be happy. The president sees that the parliamentary majority went “hard”. Even the constitutionalist Prof. Ryszard Piotrowski, who cannot be said to be on any side, emphasized in the media on Wednesday that the action of the police was an insult to the head of state and an excess without any constitutional basis, he said.
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