photo. screen Youtube / tvnpl / Reporting Power of LiesThe Warsaw-Śródmieście territory Attorney's Office examines the circumstances of the event, which took place on 10 July 2026 in front of the building at 16 Wiejska Street in Warsaw, close the Seym building.
Security footage from the surveillance cameras, to which the TVN24 writer Patryk Michalski reached, recorded the minute of breaking into the bicycle trolley and took the wreath from it immediately after the conclusion of the morning celebrations of the Smolensk monthly. The video shows 3 men, 1 of whom was observing the environment, while the another 2 opened the cart and pulled out its contents. Investigators shall verify the identity of the persons seen in the staff for the presence of an MP of Law and Justice:
"One of the men may have been an MP at the Sejm, Antoni Macierewicz".
Evidence activities focus on analysing the appearance of perpetrators and the chronology of their actions at the scene. Law enforcement officials reserve in parallel that secured video material at this phase of the investigation does not categorically find the identity of all participants.
Context of the dispute over installations in Piłsudski Square and the content of the removed plaque
The subject of the seizure was a wreath cyclically laid by a group of activists in front of the monument of the Victims of the Smolensk Tragedy in the square of Marshal Józef Piłsudski in Warsaw. The floral composition contained a plaque with a dedication to the work of president Lech Kaczyński for the disaster of April 10, 2010 with the content of:
"Memoirs of 95 victims of Lech Kaczyński, who, ignoring all procedures, ordered pilots to land in Smolensk under highly hard conditions. remainder in peace. The Nation of Poland’.
The case forms part of a series of incidents involving the removal of wreaths filed by activists during anniversary celebrations. A akin event was reported on April 10, 2024, erstwhile president of Law and Justice Jarosław Kaczyński made a forceful effort to dismantle and destruct the plaque placed on the same wreath in Piłsudski Square. The current proceedings of the Warsaw territory Attorney's Office are to find whether the action of the men registered on July 10, 2026 fulfilled the signs of burglary and what was the direct participation of the parliamentarian in this process.
The territory Attorney's Office of Warsaw-Śródmieście deals with a case of theft with breaking into a bicycle trolley. After watching the surveillance footage, investigators say that 1 of the perpetrators "could have been Antoni Macerewicz" – he learned @PatrakmichalskiAuthor of the program #Michalski News In... pic.twitter.com/9WnohtCoTZ
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