The events of 30 October 2026 in Warsaw are real and serious, but they unfolded differently from the post's framing. According to Onet, judges elected by the current Sejm entered the Constitutional Tribunal building, announced that president Bogdan Święczkowski had been suspended from his duties and that judge Anna Korwin-Piotrowska would lead the institution as its longest-serving member. Judge Sławomir Patyra described the move as restoring the Tribunal's proper functioning, saying: "We are restoring the proper functioning of the Constitutional Tribunal." The Tribunal's own X account rejected the takeover, insisting that Święczkowski remained president and that "all persons participating in these actions are committing the crime of a coup d'état." That is a takeover of the institution's leadership by newly appointed judges — not a police seizure.
Police were present in large numbers, and their own statements define a narrower role than the post claims. The Warsaw Metropolitan Police said officers were "carrying out statutory activities on the grounds of the seat of the Constitutional Tribunal in Warsaw," triggered by information from a Tribunal judge about possible threats to the life or health of judges and staff and a risk of disruption to public order. A later statement was explicit: "There are no police officers in the building of the Constitutional Tribunal." Police also denied acting against the Tribunal's own guard, and reported that three people were detained after climbing the fence onto the grounds, with proceedings opened for violation of domestic peace. Polskie Radio 24, Do Rzeczy and Polsat News all carried the same official account, so the repeated outlet coverage adds no separate evidence of a building takeover.
The element about the vice-president is partly grounded but misattributed. Onet reported that vice-president Bartłomiej Sochański tried to enter the building and was not admitted, and that no judges appointed under the previous government were present when the new judges arrived. No source says police locked the court or personally barred Sochański; the refusal is reported without being attributed to officers, and police maintained they were outside the building. A former police officer, Dariusz Loranty, told Polsat News that "the police did not politically take over the Constitutional Tribunal, they only entered the area of the facility," drawing a distinction between the immunity of judges and the status of the building.
The most consequential assertion — that the operation was ordered by Tusk's government — has no support in the available reporting. Police cited a judge's notification and a letter from the Prosecutor General asking for attention to the Tribunal's security, not a directive from the prime minister. Background reporting from Deutsche Welle on 16 October describes a long-running political battle over the Tribunal, with Tusk's coalition pushing to reshape it and President Karol Nawrocki obstructing appointments, but that context explains the tension without establishing that Tusk ordered a police operation. The post also omits the trigger police gave — reported threats and objects thrown at officers — and presents an institutional power struggle as a unilateral armed grab. Because the underlying confrontation is real but the central framing of a police seizure on Tusk's orders is not supported, the claim is misleading rather than accurate.
