The assistant to the president of TV Republika, who was handcuffed during a police visit to an apartment that also serves as Tomasz Sakiewicz’s office, has been summoned to a police station. She is to appear there “as a suspect” because she allegedly failed to identify herself. The Niezalezna.pl portal has obtained the contents of the summons.
“On 15 May 2026, at approximately 1:44 p.m., on Wiktorska Street in Warsaw, during an intervention, contrary to her obligation, she failed to provide uniformed police officers, authorized by law to carry out identity checks, with information enabling them to establish her identity,”
reads the summons obtained by the portal.
The case concerns a situation that occurred almost a month ago, when the headquarters of TV Republika, its journalists and employees became the victims of a several-day series of false alarms involving calls to uniformed services. The visits by emergency services, the fire brigade, paramedics and police were prompted by false reports of fires or threats to the life or health of minors.
It was such a call that the officers who entered the apartment of the station’s CEO, Tomasz Sakiewicz, cited as the reason for their intervention. The door was opened by his assistant. After the police searched the apartment, they handcuffed her and then led her out into the street. In a recording made by the station’s CEO, police officers can be seen ordering the woman, whose hands were cuffed behind her back, to reach into the pocket of a garment hanging on a coat rack to take out her documents.
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Despite this, the police long maintained that no one had been detained. After almost a month, it emerged that a detention report had in fact been drawn up concerning the assistant to the CEO of TV Republika. The document reveals a number of inconsistencies, with many details failing to correspond to the actual course of events.
Aleksandra Sheybal decided to speak publicly about her detention on TV Republika.
Several weeks after the intervention, she received a summons to appear at a police station. It was emphasized that she may submit written explanations. However, the summons was accompanied by an “instruction on the rights and obligations of a person with regard to whom there are reasonable grounds to file a motion for punishment.”
The document also cited provisions stating that she is obliged to inform the police of any change in her place of residence and any stay lasting longer than seven days, “as well as to appear when summoned by this authority, under pain of detention and compulsory escort.”
Sakiewicz himself also commented on the case, posting a statement on social media.
“A moment ago, the police summoned my assistant in a case against her over the fact that, while handcuffed, she did not show them her ID. Even the communists were not such idiots. Jokes about the militia officers will soon be making a comeback…,”
he wrote.