“On January 12, 2024, the Prosecutor General, Professor Adam Bodnar, during a meeting with the National Prosecutor, Mr. Dariusz Barski, handed him a document stating that he was reinstated to active duty on February 16, 2022, by the previous Prosecutor General. Mr. Zbigniew Ziobro was made in violation of the current regulations. did not produce any legal effect. This was because a provision of the Act that was no longer in force was used,” the Ministry of Justice said in a statement.
In March 2022, Dariusz Barski was appointed as the General Prosecutor and First Deputy National Prosecutor, replacing Bogdan Šwiechkovski.
A wave of criticism. Jak's sharp entry
This move by Adam Bodnar quickly caused a wave of criticism. Opposition politicians claim that the minister is violating the law. PiS MEP Patrick Jak recalls that the dismissal of the national prosecutor may be done with the written consent of the president. This is written in the Act on the Prosecutor's Office. “This is another brutal attack on the state system. The political will is above the law. The will is not the source of the law,” the former deputy head of the Ministry of Justice emphasizes. “Bodnar will be held criminally responsible for what he did, and no EU will help him,” asserts Patrick Jacque.
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PiS deputy Sebastian Kaleta, also a former deputy minister of justice, holds a similar position. “This appeal is legally ineffective. The only procedure that the law provides for assessing the status of a national prosecutor is Article 14 of the Law on the Prosecutor's Office,” Kaleta X wrote on the website, citing provisions of the law. Prosecutor's office.
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Meanwhile, many people are happy with this turn of events. KO MP Roman Giertich: “Goodbye, retired prosecutor Dariusz Barski. Goodbye.” “I have very good news for you: the Minister of Justice dismissed the national prosecutor. Mr. Barski was appointed to this position based on an invalid statute. An accident,” commented the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. and administration, Markin Kierwinski.