In the absence of evidence, the Polish Minister of Justice, who is also the country's chief prosecutor, accuses judges of participating in an organized criminal group and demands that their immunity be suspended.
On June 29, the official website of the National Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Poland published a statement by the spokesperson of the prosecutor's office, Anna Adamiak, in which she announced that a request had been submitted to suspend the immunity of four common court judges.
There would be nothing unusual about this if the judges were not mentioned by name and the content of the announcement did not clearly suggest that they committed crimes as part of an organized criminal group. It is well known that this group was the innovation of individuals, one of whom was also accused by the same National Prosecutor's Office of the crime of espionage for the benefit of a foreign state.
The case not only proves the instability and inconsistency of Chief Prosecutor Adam Bodnar, but above all it represents an unacceptable attack on the judiciary. The content of the announcement also damages the good reputation of the judges mentioned in it, including Lukasz Piebiak, Jakub Iwanc and Przemyslaw Radzik, who are publicly slandered and defamed despite the protection granted to all judges by the Polish constitution.
I am curiously waiting (we are waiting) to see what else the December 13 coalition government will resort to in its attempts to take over the judiciary.
Source: Regional Court Judge Andrzej Skowron, member and vice-president of the conservative bar association "Prawnicy dla Polski" ("Lawyers for Poland")
Cover photo: Polish Minister of Justice Adam Bodnar - Photo: MTI/EPA-PAP/Radek Pietruszka
