The head of Poland’s National Security Bureau (BBN), Bartosz Grodecki, has, for more than a week, received no written explanations from Interior Minister Marcin Kierwiński regarding the police’s forceful entry into the home of Tomasz Sakiewicz, as well as false emergency reports targeting other journalists from the station. Prosecutors have also remained silent.
On Monday, May 18, the head of the National Security Bureau, Bartosz Grodecki, formally requested detailed information from Interior and Administration Minister Marcin Kierwiński concerning the actions of services subordinate to the ministry against TV Republika.
The request followed an incident on Friday, May 15, when police entered the home of the station’s editor-in-chief, Tomasz Sakiewicz, handcuffed his assistant, and claimed that a child’s life was allegedly in danger. To this day, prosecutors have not released footage from the body cameras of the two officers involved in the operation, neither of whom reportedly wore proper identification. Information has also emerged suggesting that only one recording exists, and that it begins one minute after the intervention had already started.
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Both before and after the incident, employees of TV Republika became targets of attacks involving false emergency calls informing authorities that individuals linked to the television station were either attempting to take their own lives or storing explosive devices in their homes.
No explanations
For more than a week, the police have avoided answering any of our journalistic questions regarding the matter. As it turns out, the “information blockade” extends further and also affects a key state institution, the National Security Bureau. According to information obtained by the Niezalezna.pl portal, the head of the Interior Ministry has still not responded to Bartosz Grodecki’s letter.
In the letter, the head of the National Security Bureau demanded explanations regarding how the services operated during the series of false emergency reports.
“In the letter sent last Monday, we requested details, including information concerning actions taken against Sławomir Cenckiewicz, the former head of this institution. We are still awaiting a response,”
Arkadiusz Puławski, deputy director of the Office of the Head of the National Security Bureau, told Niezalezna.pl.
As Niezależna.pl portal has learned, the Interior Ministry intends to respond to the National Security Bureau. It remains unclear when this will happen.
Questionable moves by prosecutors
As it was written before, after several days, the case was transferred from the Warsaw District Prosecutor’s Office to the Warsaw-Praga District Prosecutor’s Office. It was merged with an ongoing large-scale investigation into an organized criminal group. Until now, that investigation had focused on an online gang originating from gaming circles, allegedly responsible for mass bomb hoaxes, stalking, and data extortion operations across the country.
The Prague district prosecutor’s office refuses to provide any information regarding the investigation, including matters related to the publication of body-camera footage. It has also failed to explain why Editor-in-Chief Sakiewicz, TV Republika journalists, and Professor Cenckiewicz have not been granted victim status. Nor has it justified why it took over the investigation.
However, this conspiracy of silence also followed Saturday’s forced entry by emergency services into the family home of President Karol Nawrocki, likewise triggered by false reports. Prosecutors in Gdańsk opened an investigation into the matter and issued an official statement. The district prosecutor’s spokesperson gave several interviews and then fell silent. Yesterday, he merely referred journalists back to Monday’s initial statement.
“Based on the evidence gathered so far, it has been established that on May 23, 2026, an unidentified individual used the ‘Alarm 112’ application, from a confirmed telephone number, to report an alleged fire and subsequently a threat to the life of a minor in an apartment located in a multi-family residential building in Gdańsk. Due to the inability to contact the reporting individual, the 112 dispatcher from the Emergency Notification Centre in Radom dispatched the appropriate services, the fire brigade, ambulance service, and police, to eliminate the threat,”
prosecutor Mariusz Duszyński from the District Prosecutor’s Office in Gdańsk stated on Monday.
Why was the signal received by the center in Radom rather than Gdańsk? Because all reports submitted through the mobile application are handled by a dedicated team in Radom.
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On Monday, on Polsat News, prosecutor Duszyński added further details. He stated that “a recording of the report had been secured.” However, the “Alarm 112” mobile application is intended for reporting emergencies in situations where a voice call cannot be made. In order to register for the application, users must provide personal information, including their name, email address, telephone number, and PESEL identification number. After entering the data, the user completes verification via an SMS code. In addition, use of the application requires consent to access the device’s location data.
Prosecutor Duszyński was asked to explain this contradiction.
“I wonder whether I meant an audio recording. This came from the application. There was no recording here. Perhaps I actually intended to refer to the securing of recordings from body cameras and their preservation,”
he said.
When further asked whether this meant he was aware that recordings from officers’ body cameras had in fact been secured, he refused to answer, along with many other questions.