"Without free media, there is no democracy" - wrote president Karol Nawrocki on Saturday, who criticised police intervention at the home of editor Tomasz Sakiewicz. He added that journalists cannot live under the force of the service.
"If a writer in Poland must wonder if another false study will not end with the entry of the services into the house, chaining up coworkers and searching the editorial board - that means that a very dangerous border is being crossed" - he wrote on Saturday in social media Karol Nawrocki.
This is the president's comment on Friday police intervention at the editor-in-chief of tv Republic of Tomasz Sakiewicz.
"Without free media there is no democracy". president on police intervention at Sakiewicz's house
The president stressed in his entry that Without free media there is no democracy, and freedom of expression is not where "journalists begin to live under the force of service intervention, threats and actions paralyzing the work of the editorial board".
"Irrespective of political views, everyone should ask themselves today: can you let a situation in which journalists do not feel safe in their own homes and workplaces?" the president pointed out. He declared that having remembered the experience of communism, "defence free speech and defy media harassment".
If a writer in Poland has to wonder if another false study will end with the entry of the services into the house, the cuffing of coworkers and the search of the editorial board – that means that a very dangerous border is crossed.
— Karol Nawrocki (@NawrockiKn) May 16, 2026
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Police intervention at Sakiewicz's house. Minister Kierwinski defends the services
Also on Saturday, police reported that a 53-year-old man was detained, who may have been active in reporting false alarms that resulted in police entering the journalist's premises.
SEE: Police at Sakiewicz's house. fresh information, 53-year-old detained
On Friday, the head of the Ministry of abroad Affairs was asked about the case Marcin Kierwinski. - Police and all personnel respond to reports. All state services responded and these respond as legitimately as possible, as professional as possible - the minister replied.
- I'm sorry. From the beginning, you were very loudly shouting that these were unauthorised interventions. On the another hand, The intervention did not concern the operation of the station state, but specific, formulated threats - he added, addressing the writer of the Republic.
New Head of BBN Bartosz Grodecki announced a speech to Minister Kierwiński about the activities under his authority. "the harassment of tv journalists Republic". Kiewiński in consequence to Grodecki's entry assessed that the thesis posed by the Head of BBN was false, and Police intervened "in connection with possible life-threatening".
