“There are documents which, in my opinion, indicate that at least Mr. Donald Tusk may have taken part in such activities [related to the coup d’état],” said on Sunday the President of the Constitutional Tribunal, Bogdan Święczkowski.
President of the Constitutional Tribunal, Bogdan Święczkowski, filed a notification of a suspected crime of coup d’état in February. He reported the suspected commission of this crime by, among others, Donald Tusk, ministers, politicians from the ruling coalition, and certain lawyers.
According to the President of the Constitutional Tribunal, the crime consisted of the fact that, since December 13, 2023, these individuals have been acting “as part of an organized criminal group,” with the goal of “changing the constitutional system of the Republic of Poland and acting to achieve or to obstruct the functioning of the Constitutional Tribunal and other constitutional bodies, including the National Council of the Judiciary and the Supreme Court.”
The investigation was initiated by Prosecutor Michał Ostrowski. Shortly afterward, then-Minister of Justice and Prosecutor General Adam Bodnar announced his suspension. The case was transferred to the District Prosecutor’s Office in Warsaw and assigned to Deputy District Prosecutor Małgorzata Szeroczyńska.
“There are documents…”
On Sunday, the President of the Constitutional Tribunal (and former Deputy Prosecutor General) was a guest on Miłosz Kłeczek w Ruchu. During the program, he was asked, among other things, why, during eight years of Law and Justice (PiS) rule, Civic Platform leader Donald Tusk had not been charged and why no indictment had been brought against him.
“That’s not a question for me. If it were up to me, a certain person would probably already be serving a prison sentence,” he replied.
He was then asked about the ongoing proceedings regarding the alleged coup d’état. When pressed on whether, after two years of the December 13 coalition government, there exists sufficient evidence and grounds to bring direct charges against Donald Tusk, he answered:
“I don’t want to reveal my strategy before the hearing of Marshal Hołownia, but there are documents which, in my opinion, indicate that at least Mr. Donald Tusk may have taken part in such activities. And whether he was directing them – that is a question concerning the role of Brussels, the role of foreign influence, and so on. These are matters to be clarified in the course of the investigation.”