The Domonkos Order does not agree that the order is "treated as a tool in the disputes between political parties", emphasized the head of the province.
In its statement on Friday, the Polish Dominican Order asked for an explanation of the house search that the police conducted in the order's monastery in Lublin, eastern Poland, in connection with the criminal case of opposition member of parliament Marcin Romanowski, who fled to Hungary.
The Polish prosecutor's office confirmed on Friday that the police searched the Lublin monastery in the case of Marcin Romanowski, a representative of the main Polish opposition party, Law and Justice (PiS), and former deputy minister of justice.
Dominican monk Szymon Poplawski, socius (assistant) of the provincial head, emphasized in a statement delivered to the PAP on Friday: the Dominicans in Poland expect the doubts related to the house search to be clarified.
The Dominicans do not agree to treat their order "as a tool in disputes between (political) parties," the socius emphasized. He called it regrettable that the letter written by the Dominican province chief Lukasz Wisniewski as an internal church document on this matter had previously been made public.
The onet.pl news portal already published the letter on Wednesday, which called the police action in Lublin groundless and disproportionate. According to the letter, the police in ski masks also used drones, combed the monastery for two hours and photographed the monks' cells.
In his letter, the head of the province pointed out that the house search was held despite the fact that Romanowski's stay in Hungary had already become widely known that day.
Prosecution spokesman Przemyslaw Nowak told the PAP news agency on Friday that the prosecution decided on December 19 to detain Romanowski and search the Lublin monastery that day. He underlined: the house search did not affect the premises intended for religious practice.
The operation was launched based on a December 18 tip that Romanowski was in a cell at the monastery. The information also described the changed appearance of the politician, Nowak explained.
Minister of the Interior Tomasz Siemoniak stated on Polsat News on Friday that the action in Lublin cannot be considered an attack on the church, it was "simply a search for a criminal".
Cover image: Marcin Romanowski was granted asylum in Hungary
Source: Facebook/Marcin Romanowski
