Yesterday, prosecutors, accompanied by police officers, entered the building on Rakowiecka Street that houses the headquarters of the National Council of the Judiciary (Krajowa Rada Sądownictwa, KRS). Procedural activities involving the search for and seizure of documents were being carried out on the order of the National Public Prosecutor’s Office. Among the police officers taking part in the operation, internet users identified Filip R., an officer who, two years ago, stood out for exceptional aggression during the suppression of farmers’ protests.
Police officer Filip R. appeared yesterday at the KRS headquarters.
This officer “gained notoriety” for his brutal treatment of farmers protesting in 2024. It was he who lunged at the farmer Michał Sołdan, who took his own life several months later.
Earlier, the officer’s name had surfaced in tabloid articles concerning his (short-lived) relationship with one of the participants in the television program “Rolnik szuka żony” (“Farmer Wants a Wife”).
Is it a coincidence that an officer associated with brutal interventions against citizens protesting EU policy is participating in an operation against the KRS? The matter requires clarification, especially in the context of allegations that yesterday’s actions by the services are politically motivated.
According to Minister of Justice Waldemar Żurek, the entry by the services concerns disciplinary case files from the period when Zbigniew Ziobro was in office, which are allegedly still held by disciplinary spokespersons appointed by the former minister. Żurek explained in the Sejm that this is not an entry into the KRS headquarters itself, but into the building where rooms lent to the disciplinary spokespersons are located. The National Public Prosecutor’s Office issued a statement stating that the order concerns, among other things, the usurpation of the function of disciplinary spokesperson by individuals who had been deprived of those functions, as well as the concealment of documentation by refusing to release it.
The operation has met with sharp criticism from members of the KRS. Przemysław Radzik, Deputy Disciplinary Spokesperson for Judges of the Common Courts, described it as having a thuggish and demonstrative character. Voices have appeared on social media alleging a forceful takeover of the KRS headquarters and a coup against a constitutional body.