Szymon Hołownia should thoroughly describe the course of the conversations in which he was encouraged to carry out a coup d’état, deposit those descriptions in trusted safes and law offices, and then report to the prosecutor’s office so that his testimony is recorded in an official document – advises Marshal Paweł Jabłoński, a PiS MP who is also a lawyer. According to Jabłoński, the case of pressure being exerted on Hołownia is the most serious criminal case in Poland in the last 35 years.
On Friday, Marshal of the Sejm Szymon Hołownia confirmed media reports stating that he had been pressured to participate in a coup d’état. “I was repeatedly offered or suggested whether I would be ready to carry out a coup d’état,” he said on Polsat News. He added that these suggestions involved blocking or delaying the swearing-in ceremony of the newly elected president Karol Nawrocki. The Marshal emphasized that he had firmly rejected those proposals.
He told the journalist that he might describe the situation in his memoirs one day. However, Paweł Jabłoński emphasized that Article 304 of the Code of Criminal Procedure obliges Hołownia not to wait for memoirs but to immediately notify the prosecutor’s office about the matter.
“Donald Tusk is capable of anything – and in this case, he will fight to the death. That’s why respect to Marshal Szymon Hołownia for not letting himself be intimidated and for preventing a coup d’état,” Jabłoński stated on X. As a lawyer, he also gave Hołownia important advice, saying that he should do two things without delay.
“Describe in detail the course of the conversations in which incitement to commit the crime of a coup d’état took place – including names, locations, dates, and any potential witnesses – and deposit it in several independent locations (notaries, law offices, bank safes, trusted individuals),” Jabłoński wrote. Then, “he should report to the prosecutor’s office to give testimony – so that it is officially recorded.” “Even if Żurek’s prosecution does nothing with it today, it will serve as evidence to be used in the future,” added Paweł Jabłoński.
In the attached recording, he also called the current situation “the most serious criminal case in 35 years.”