Today, at around 2 p.m. local time (8 a.m. EST), the agents from Agency of Internal Security (ABW) entered the apartment of MP Marcin Romanowski. The politician was detained in order to be transported to the National Prosecutor's Office. He lost his immunity by parliamentary vote last week. However the authorities were so eager to arrest him in front of TV cameras, they just happened to be there (LOL), that nobody checked the his legal status. Mr. Romanowski enjoys a second immunity resulting from membership in the delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe since 23 January 2024, he won the elections.
His attorney, Bartosz Lewandowski, pointed out that "the moment the handcuffs were put on" the politician "a gross violation of the law and violation of international law occurred". He also demanded the removal of prosecutors from the case, whose impartiality seems "questionable".
The politician was detained in order to be transported to the National Prosecutor's Office. Investigators want to charge him with 11 violations in connection with alleged irregularities around the Justice Fund. That's the same case in which the "most democratic government ever" allowed a priest to be physically and psychologically tortured (see a posts from last week).
"In this respect, the MP has immunity and also benefits from the privilege of personal inviolability. In the event of a desire to bring him to criminal liability, arrest and temporary detention, the Prosecutor's Office was obliged to apply to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to lift his immunity in an appropriate procedure. This is confirmed even by the official website of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, which probably no one has read" - wrote MP's lawyer.
"This is an international SCANDAL. I am immediately filing a motion to release MP Romanowski and will file an appropriate complaint to the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe and a notification to the Prosecutor's Office on behalf of my Client" – he emphasized.
Lewandowski had earlier announced that he wanted to remove five prosecutors who are members of Investigative Team No. 2 in the National Prosecutor's Office from proceedings involving the politician.
"All circumstances indicate reasonable grounds that the investigation conducted by prosecutors, which after all covers acts allegedly committed by the previous Minister of Justice and the previous management, will not be conducted impartially."
- Based on reporting by Niezalezna.
