In the case of Robert Bąkiewicz, the Stalinist maxim “give me the man and I’ll find the crime” seems to remain fully relevant. Prosecutors who distanced themselves from filing trumped-up charges against the leader of the Border Protection Movement (ROG) were quietly dismissed without explanation or removed from the case. Another case handler, brought in from a district office, focused on defending the good name of judges, prosecutors, politicians and journalists. He also concluded that Bąkiewicz’s statements stirred up “strong resentment” toward migrants and… Germans. The portal Niezalezna.pl has obtained the content of the decision presenting Bąkiewicz with new charges.
Destroy Bąkiewicz
On 18 August this year, at the Gorzów District Prosecutor’s Office, the leader of the Border Protection Movement Robert Bąkiewicz was charged with insulting officers of the Border Guard and Military Police while they were performing their official duties. A month later, on 17 September, further charges were filed – this time of defaming officers and attempting to induce them to neglect their official duties.
However, the matter was not free of controversy, even within the prosecution itself, because investigators in Gorzów Wielkopolski were not convinced of the legitimacy of the charges against Bąkiewicz. A prosecutor from the Regional Prosecutor’s Office in Szczecin intervened and issued a service order in the case.
Prosecutor Maciej Mielcarek requested to be removed from carrying out procedural actions involving Bąkiewicz, arguing that the case file required supplementation, but the illegal National Prosecutor Dariusz Korneluk decided not to grant the request. Although prosecutor Mielcarek ultimately filed the charges against Bąkiewicz, he was nevertheless removed from the case, and the leadership of the District Prosecutor’s Office in Gorzów Wielkopolski, which had previously supported him, was replaced without explanation.
“Paulina Błaszkiewicz, District Prosecutor in Gorzów Wlkp., and Monika Pytlińska, Deputy District Prosecutor in Gorzów Wlkp., were dismissed as of 30 September 2025,” the spokesperson of the District Prosecutor’s Office in Gorzów Wielkopolski, prosecutor Mariola Wojciechowska-Grześkowiak, told Niezależna.pl.
She added that “the decisions dismissing the listed prosecutors do not contain a justification.”
A district prosecutor enters the scene
The case of Robert Bąkiewicz was taken over by prosecutor Maciej Ostałowski from the District Prosecutor’s Office in Sulęcin, delegated to the District Prosecutor’s Office in Gorzów Wielkopolski. On Thursday, he filed new charges related to two additional offences: defamation of public officials and journalists on social media (Art. 212 § 2 of the Criminal Code in connection with Art. 57a § 1 of the Criminal Code), and incitement to hatred based on national, ethnic and racial differences (Art. 256 § 1 of the Criminal Code). Combined, these charges carry a penalty of up to 3 years in prison.
Let us recall that strict preventive measures have been applied to Robert Bąkiewicz: an obligation to report to the police twice a week, to inform authorities when leaving his place of residence, and a ban on approaching Polish-German border crossings at a distance closer than one kilometre.
Shocking argumentation from the prosecution
Niezależna.pl has obtained the decision presenting Robert Bąkiewicz with the new charges.
According to the prosecution, Bąkiewicz defamed judges, prosecutors, politicians and journalists by accusing them of conduct that could “lower them in the eyes of the public and expose them to the loss of the trust necessary to serve and practise their profession.” Investigators claim he committed this wrongful act by stating that these groups “are selling out and betraying Poland by leaving the country at the mercy of a migration frenzy, an invasion that will destroy, kill forever, for eternity, our homeland.” Evaluating journalists, Bąkiewicz added that they “display an utterly unjustified servile attitude toward their German masters.”
The leader of the Border Protection Movement also allegedly incited hatred on the basis of national, ethnic and racial differences by including in his social media posts and interviews “statements arousing and intensifying strong dislike and hostility toward people of German nationality and toward migrants.”
One such example supposedly came from an interview on TV Republika, in which he stated that “the migration model introduced into Poland by Germany and the European Commission is intended to destroy the Polish state and our security, while the process of immigrant assimilation and integration has completely collapsed and has led to the decline of security in the United Kingdom, France and other countries.”
The prosecution also considered impermissible his statement that the process aims to “trigger internal conflicts” and “increase the risk of rape offences.”
Investigators also found criminal content in a social media post in which Bąkiewicz claimed that “Germany is carrying out an invasion of Poland using migrants” and that joint German-Polish Border Guard and police patrols “are a joke” and serve “to allow the German side to control the actions of the Polish Border Guard.”
Another example of Bąkiewicz’s supposedly “criminal” activity was his statement that “Germany poses a threat to Poland, is an aggressor, cynically and with great arrogance exposes us to dangers, conducts hybrid warfare against Poland, commits crimes and bandit attacks against Poland, and that Poland faces a flood of thousands and hundreds of thousands of migrants, which will endanger the safety of Polish citizens and irreversibly destroy their current way of life.”
According to the prosecution, Bąkiewicz was also not allowed to publicly say that “Germany is aggressively attacking Poland” or that “we are Germany’s footstool, and Poland faces an Armageddon consisting of the loss of internal security due to the influx of hundreds and thousands of migrants.” He was also not allowed to suggest that migrants may carry scabies or other infectious diseases and that they “commit rape offences more often than others, fail to integrate with the host country’s culture, and deliberately create so-called sharia zones in host countries.”
Prosecutor or censor?
Commenting on the new charges, one of Bąkiewicz’s three attorneys, advocate Krzysztof Wąsowski, stated that prosecutor Ostałowski “has clearly confused the roles – that of a prosecutor and that of a censor.”
He points to Ostałowski’s “servility” and “desire to ingratiate himself with the current regime.” He adds that “the entire situation looks as if the authorities want to test whether it is possible to introduce a new type of ideological censorship through prosecutors’ actions – through illegal backdoor methods – without a censorship law.”
He stresses that “this would be an extreme insult to the constitution and the rule of law,” which “cannot under any circumstances be accepted,” and calls on “all honest Poles to support this unequal struggle.”