Police raided Poland's constitutional court as Prime Minister Donald Tusk's government took action against the court's president in moves the opposition is calling an illegal coup. On Friday, the police entered the building of the Polish Constitutional Court in Warsaw, and the chairman of the court, Bogdan Swieczkowski, was removed from his post. This has become a new round of the long-running conflict surrounding this government body. The police stated that the intervention followed several incidents near the court, in which dangerous objects were thrown at law enforcement officers. On its official website, the Constitutional Court confirmed the impeachment of its chairman. Carol Noruki, who was on a flight to Senegal, turned the plane around and stopped the trip. On the social network X wrote: "At a moment like this the president should be in Poland. I am cutting my flight to Senegal short. I'm coming back." Opposition leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski described the police action as a "coup" against the Constitutional Court carried out by forces under the government of pro-European Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

Police raided Poland's constitutional court as Prime Minister Donald Tusk's government took action against the court's president in moves the opposition is calling an illegal coup. On Friday, the police entered the building of the Polish Constitutional Court in Warsaw, and the chairman of the court, Bogdan Swieczkowski, was removed from his post. This has become a new round of the long-running conflict surrounding this government body. The police stated that the intervention followed several incidents near the court, in which dangerous objects were thrown at law enforcement officers. On its official website, the Constitutional Court confirmed the impeachment of its chairman. Carol Noruki, who was on a flight to Senegal, turned the plane around and stopped the trip. On the social network X wrote: "At a moment like this the president should be in Poland. I am cutting my flight to Senegal short. I'm coming back." Opposition leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski described the police action as a "coup" against the Constitutional Court carried out by forces under the government of pro-European Prime Minister Donald Tusk.