Procedural steps have already been carried out with the 19-year-old suspected of making criminal threats against President Karol Nawrocki. “The suspect has admitted guilt,” said prosecutor Piotr Antoni Skiba, spokesperson for the Warsaw prosecutor’s office. He added that at a later stage it will be necessary to question President Karol Nawrocki.
On Saturday evening the Warsaw Metropolitan Police Headquarters reported that a man connected to issuing criminal threats against the President of Poland had been detained. The case concerns a photo with a pistol and the caption “see you, Karolek”, posted under a photograph of the President taken during Friday’s Poland–Netherlands match.
According to the spokesperson for the Warsaw District Prosecutor’s Office (PO), on Sunday procedural activities involving the 19-year-old took place at the Warsaw-Śródmieście-North Regional Prosecutor’s Office. Prosecutor Skiba stated that the suspect, accused of making criminal threats – that is, of an act under Article 190, paragraph 1 of the Penal Code – admitted to the alleged act, submitted “very extensive” explanations, and expressed remorse.
The prosecutor imposed police supervision combined with a ban on approaching the President and the buildings belonging to the Chancellery of the President of the Republic of Poland (KPRP), including the Presidential Palace and Belweder.
A formal notification to the prosecutor’s office was also submitted by the State Protection Service (SOP).
Prosecutor Skiba added that at a later stage of the proceedings it will also be necessary to question President Karol Nawrocki, in the capacity of the victim, and to obtain from him a formal request to prosecute. The suspect is a 19-year-old man, a Polish citizen and a vocational school student.