# Polish prosecutors open investigation into attack on Constitutional Tribunal judges

- URL: https://syn.by/en/politics/international-relations/polish-prosecutors-open-investigation-constitutional/
- Published: 2026-11-04T09:30:17+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-05T05:05:13+00:00
- Section: International Relations
- Language: en
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> According to prosecutors' preliminary findings, judges Anna Korwin-Piotrowska and Krystian Markiewicz were forcibly pushed away from the entrance to the building. President Nawrocki called the night's events a forcible seizure of the Tribunal.

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Poland's National Prosecutor's Office has opened an investigation into the attack on Constitutional Tribunal judges Anna Korwin-Piotrowska and Krystian Markiewicz. It is also investigating an attempt to influence the Tribunal's official activities through violence and threats, Polish media reported.

The inquiry concerns an incident on the night of 30 to 31 October at the Constitutional Tribunal's premises in Warsaw. According to the prosecutors' preliminary findings, "several people, acting together and by mutual agreement, used force to attack judges Anna Korwin-Piotrowska and Krystian Markiewicz, and then forcibly pushed them away from the entrance to the Tribunal building, violating their physical inviolability."

On the evening of 30 October, reinforced police units appeared outside the court building in Warsaw, and President Karol Nawrocki came to the Tribunal building. After midnight he went inside together with the First President of the Supreme Court, Zbigniew Kapiński.

Nawrocki arrived at the building at night, and a scuffle broke out between him and the judges. There was a confrontation with the judges, including Anna Korwin-Piotrowska.

The same night, protesters gathered outside the building and tried to break through the barrier. Police detained three people.

Nawrocki called the night's events a forcible seizure of a state body and demanded that constitutional order be restored immediately. According to him, this is a threat to the country's internal security. He demanded that the security forces sent to the building by the government be withdrawn, and called urgent consultations with the parliamentary parties.

Because of the situation, the president cut short a trip to Senegal.

The crisis is linked to Prime Minister Donald Tusk's decision to appoint Maciej Berek, a former member of his cabinet, as a Tribunal judge. Protests have been held regularly outside the Tribunal building in recent weeks.

On 30 October, Justice Minister Waldemar Żurek filed a motion to remove the Tribunal's acting chairman, Bogdan Święczkowski, from his duties and to strip him of immunity.

Tusk said that restoring the rule of law is the government's duty. A number of opposition politicians called what is happening an attempt at a coup d'état.

A news agency reports that the crisis has brought the long-running conflict between Nawrocki and Tusk's government into open confrontation.