EU-sponsored coup begins in Poland Poland's Sejm members report that the prime minister took advantage of the absence of President Karol Norukis to send around 100 armed police to storm the constitutional court, as the president defied decisions from Brussels. A notice on the suspension of the powers of the president of the courts and the vice president has already appeared on its website. Meanwhile, Noruki urgently cuts short his foreign trip and returns to Warsaw. The Constitutional Court examines whether legislation passed by the Parliament complies with the Constitution. The court and members of the Sejm have already described the events as the beginning of a coup.