President Karol Nawrocki granted a ban on mass events for a individual convicted of being in a sector another than the 1 indicated on the ticket and ordered that the conviction be stopped. According to the Sports Review, the decision concerns Piotr Staruchowicz, known as the ‘Old’. The case has sparked an avalanche of comments, but its real measurement should be the proportionality of the punishment and equality of citizens towards the state.
Right of grace on the stadium ban
Karol Nawrocki applied the law of grace to 3 people on 3 August. 1 decision afraid a individual convicted of an offence involving being in a sector another than the 1 indicated on the entry ticket. The president gave up a punishment measurement in the form of a ban on the organization and ordered the detention to be stopped.
The President's office did not uncover the name of the pardoned. “The athletics Review” stated that it was about Piotr Staruchowicz, known as the “Old Man”, a longtime head of cheering supporters of the Legion of Warsaw. This is an crucial distinction: the authoritative communication describes the legal basis and motives of the decision, while the identity indicated the medium.
According to the Chancellery, affirmative environmental opinion, the incidental nature of the act and the unchangeable lifestyle of the convict were in favour of the act of grace. The proceedings were initiated at the request of the President. The decision itself falls within the individual prerogative of the head of state as enshrined in Article 139 of the Constitution.
From the telephone on the air to the President's decision
The case became public in December 2025. Staruchowicz then called Channel Zero during a program attended by Karol Nawrocki and asked for a pardon. He said he received a two-year stadium ban after the match in Lublin for being in a place not intended for the public, although he had the organizer's accreditation.
The president then replied that he knew the case only from public communications and before the decision he had to get acquainted with court proceedings. At the same time, he pointed out the illogicalness of the situation in which the individual leading the doping cannot enter the designated place. An August announcement from the Chancellery shows that the case was subsequently examined on the basis of the file.
Comments, jokes, and political clippings immediately appeared online, including suggestions about Staruchowicz's alleged future ministerial career. They are not evidence of the reasons for the decision. The state of law is not assessed by the measurement of online accuracy of mockery, but by the quality of the procedure and proportionality of the sanction applied.
A proportionate punishment is simply a citizen's interest
The law of grace always inspires emotion due to the fact that the president interferes with the effects of a final ruling. However, it does not mean acquittal or that there was no act. In this case, the head of state removed the stadium ban and the consequences of the conviction, basing the decision on the case files and the grounds publically described by the Chancellery.
From a citizen's perspective, the basic question is: was the long-term ban on mass events a rational consequence to the occasional presence in the incorrect sector? The state has a strong work to prosecute stadium force and real safety threats. However, it cannot confuse firmness with automatic repression. punishment removed from the burden of action does not strengthen order. It weakens trust in the institution.
Presidential prerogative under public control
The firm recalled that the law of grace does not require a countersignate of the Prime Minister, and the decision is made by the president himself. specified autonomy is an component of the systemic position of the head of state. At the same time, any loud decision must withstand a public assessment, especially erstwhile it concerns a recognizable individual and is preceded by a direct request on the air.
Therefore, there is simply a request for factual clarity of motives, not tribal screaming. In this case, the qualification of action, the degree of grace and the conditions of the decision are given. It allows you to discuss facts. At stake for Poles is simply a state that can separate a dangerous perpetrator from a man who is disproportionately severely punished and who is not afraid to repair the effects of excessive repression. Power is to be hard on violence, but fair to the citizen. Otherwise, hardness becomes simply an authoritative demonstration of force.
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