As we reported in December 2025, Waldemar Żurek wants to establish a special team of prosecutors to prosecute hate. The team is to be headed by prosecutor Maciej Młynarczyk – described by some media as a “hate hunter.” “Prosecutors who do not need any specialisation are sufficient to prosecute artificially invented ‘hate speech’,” comments the prosecutors’ association Ad Vocem on the ministry’s plans.
At the beginning of December, the niezalezna.pl portal reported on plans by Waldemar Żurek to create a special group – a network of prosecutor’s offices across Poland that would specialise in tracking crimes motivated by prejudice. Ultimately – as assumed by the Ministry of Justice – this is to be a group of 30-45 prosecutors.
This follows from a draft regulation of the Minister of Justice dated 2 December 2025. The regulation provides for the designation of 13 prosecutor’s offices (12 district offices and the Warsaw Regional Prosecutor’s Office) to “conduct proceedings in cases of crimes motivated by prejudice.”
“Hate hunter” at the head of the team
The oko.press portal reported in an article published on Thursday that work on the regulation is ongoing. Ultimately, hate-related cases are to be handled by 16 units, with the key office being the Warsaw-Praga Regional Prosecutor’s Office. The team would be headed by prosecutor Maciej Młynarczyk. Młynarczyk – described by some media as a “hate hunter” – is a member of the association Lex Super Omnia. For many years, he has been involved in prosecuting crimes motivated by hatred.
However, considerable controversy has surrounded the prosecutor’s stance on the issue of Bandera-ism. The Centre for Monitoring Anti-Polonism submitted a notification to the prosecutor’s office regarding a suspected crime related to the glorification of Banderites – prosecutor Młynarczyk was the author of an extensive decision refusing to initiate an investigation. It states, among other things, that “one cannot accept an equation according to which expressing appreciation for the figure of Stepan Bandera is identical with praising the Volhynian-Galician crime.” In a recent interview with TOK FM, prosecutor Młynarczyk also commented on current political phenomena.
“Anti-system thinking is the belief that the current system of governing the country makes no sense and that some kind of shock is needed to put everything in order. Radicalism, in turn, is above all the acceptance of increasingly radical, even drastic, methods of action, especially in politics. And then there is authoritarianism, that is, acceptance of a strong leader who acts – supposedly – on our behalf and whom we allow to bend the rules, even violate the law, because he is to take care of important matters for us. This attitude is becoming increasingly dominant and is beginning to affect groups that previously seemed resistant to it, for example people with higher education, city dwellers. Therefore, I have no illusions – a wave of radicalism is coming,” Młynarczyk expressed his conviction.
According to information published by the Government Legislation Centre, no comments were submitted to the draft at the stage of public consultations or opinions.
Ideology and an attempt to restrict freedom of speech?
The Ad Vocem association addressed the plans of the Ministry of Justice on social media.
“We propose instead focusing on prosecuting serious financial crime, VAT mafias and other significant offences, or even prohibited acts committed by representatives of a certain circle (for example, the discontinuation of a case concerning one female prosecutor from Warsaw related to the media). Prosecutors who do not need any specialisation are sufficient to prosecute artificially invented ‘hate speech’,” note the prosecutors from Ad Vocem.
They point out that there are other social problems which, following the line of reasoning of the MS, would require the establishment of special investigative teams.
“If, therefore, ideology and an attempt to restrict freedom of speech are the reasons for such organisational decisions, this reflects all the more poorly on the condition of the current Prosecutor’s Office,” they assess.
They also pointed to an article by the aforementioned prosecutor Maciej Młynarczyk entitled “Does a ‘Banderite nation’ exist?”
Among such ethno-paulisms he included, for example, the words “kacap,” “szoszon,” or “viper’s brood.”
“This is how our beloved authorities want to provide us with a ‘new brave world’ in which one can end up in stripes for using words that are not always elegant or polite, but also have their basis in the Bible,” comments Ad Vocem.