Former CBA chiefs Mariusz Kaminski and Mackie Vesic stayed on Tuesday. 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 Grokhov's advance division.
On Wednesday, they were transferred to other prisons – Kaminski prison in Radom and Vesik in the town of Przytuli Stare near Ostrolenka. Before that, both politicians started a hunger strike.
After Kaminski and Vesic were arrested, law and justice politicians referred to them as “the first political prisoners in Poland since 1989”.
Behind the scenes of the arrest of Kaminsky and Vesik in the presidential palace
According to “Rzeczpospolita”, during the police operation at the President's place, the leadership of SOP showed loyalty to the new government. “Employees of the State Security Service helped the police in arresting PiS MPs – their former bosses” – we read.
The newspaper found that Kaminski and Vesik would not have been detained without the consent of the deputy head of the SOP, Lt. Col. Bartlomiej Hebda, who is responsible for the security activities carried out by the service.
According to the information of “RZ”, with his consent, 14 policemen from the BBN side entered the presidential palace and detained the MPs in the prison.
Kaminski and Vesik were in the office of Marcin Mastalerek, the head of the president's political office, who was then working in the Vatican. The police took advantage of the moment when Andrzej Duda went to meet Belarusian oppositionist Svetlana Tsykhanuskaia.
The newspaper notes that Lt. Col. “Hebda” joined the leadership of the SOP at the request of the President himself, whom he protected for seven years.
Has the SOP passed the “loyalty test” to the Tusk government?
“Rzeczpospolita” has learned that although Donald Tusk's team initially planned a personnel revolution in the State Security Service, currently “there will be no changes”. The arrest of Kaminski and Vesik turned out to be “a kind of test of loyalty to the new government,” the newspaper's informants say.
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