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▶️ Today (23 Sept 2021) the illegal Disciplinary Chamber of the Polish Supreme Court, acting in direct breach of CJEU judgement of 15 July 2021 (C-791/19), waived immunity of the „old” judge of the Criminal Chamber of the Supreme Court, Marek Pietruszyński.
▶️ The bench of the Disciplinary Chamber consisted of 3 ex-public prosecutors (not long ago directly subordinated to the Minister of Justice): Ms Małgorzata Bednarek, Mr Jarosław Duś and Mr Jacek Wygoda.
▶️ The Disciplinary Chamber acted upon the request of policitized Internal Affairs Department of the National Prosecutors’ Office (directly subordinated to Minister of Justice), which pressed absurd charges on judge Pietruszyński of alleged judicial misconduct
▶️ the same charges are brought against two other „old” judges of the Criminal Chamber: Włodzimierz Wróbel and Andrzej Stępka, their cases are pending before Disciplinary Chamber, term of 2-nd instance hearing in judge Wróbel’s case ich scheduled for 14 Oct 2021
▶️ Alleged misconduct was in failing to release the suspects from custody at the end of the case. The problem is that this was not an omission on the part of the judges ruling on the case, but on the part of the office staff, who have already been disciplined for this.
▶️ Link to the press coverage in Polish:
Prepared by Dariusz Mazur,
spokesperson of Association of Judges Themis