The unlawfully seized National Prosecutor’s Office announced on Friday that Wiktor Z. and Bartosz Ł. had been charged with a total of 33 counts of participation in an organized criminal group in connection with sending false bomb threat notifications to institutions and private individuals. However, the acts in question cover the period from February 1, 2023, to September 5, 2025. Prosecutor Katarzyna Calów-Jaszewska admitted that these are “acts of a historical nature”.
During Friday’s press conference, Prosecutor Katarzyna Calów-Jaszewska confirmed that proceedings involving two individuals detained on May 26 – Wiktor Z. and Bartosz Ł. – had been completed at the Silesian Branch of the National Prosecutor’s Office in Katowice. The investigation, launched on September 2, 2025, concerned “issuing criminal threats via the internet and making false reports of bomb alerts”. She added that the prosecutor brought a total of 33 charges against them, with one suspect facing one charge and the other facing 32 charges. The charges cover the period from February 1, 2023, to September 5, 2025.
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Calów-Jaszewska explained that the information had been sent via the internet and various online messaging platforms. She noted that “for obvious reasons” the false alarms required intervention by emergency services and generated “very high costs for these institutions”.
When asked whether “we may be dealing here with potential perpetrators of the cascading false alarms that have occurred in recent weeks or months”, she replied that “the timeframes that have been outlined indicate that we are dealing with acts of a historical nature”.
On Thursday, the spokesperson for the Ministry of the Interior and Administration, Karolina Gałecka, reported that four people had been detained in connection with false alarms, after which services intervened, among other places, at the homes of politicians. “Two individuals are under arrest and have been charged,” she said. RMF 24 unofficially reported on Thursday that a third man, Wiktor P., detained on Wednesday in connection with a series of false alarms, had been released from custody three weeks earlier by court decision in connection with another case of the same nature.
It should be recalled that recently, following a false report, services forcibly entered an apartment in Gdańsk belonging to the mother of President Karol Nawrocki. Similar incidents also affected other well-known individuals. Police intervened, among other places, at the apartment of TV Republika CEO Tomasz Sakiewicz following a report of an alleged threat to the life of a minor. The report proved to be unfounded, and during the intervention, the station chief’s assistant was handcuffed. Officers also appeared at the property of Law and Justice (PiS) leader Jarosław Kaczyński in Warsaw. The report concerned the alleged placement of explosive devices in the garden on the party leader’s property.