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🚨BREAKING: POLAND’S POLICE TAKE THE CONSTITUTIONAL TRIBUNAL BY FORCE — TUSK’S RIOT UNITS ENTER THE HIGHEST COURT AT NIGHT, CHAINS ON THE DOORS, AND PRESIDENT NAWROCKI TURNS HIS PLANE AROUND Poland is a Slavic EU and NATO state. On 30 October in Warsaw, police under Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government entered the Constitutional Tribunal (Trybunał Konstytucyjny) and took control of the building. Riot police in helmets and shields stood outside the court after dark. Live coverage from Republika TV and opposition MP Dariusz Matecki showed the units at the site. Reports say officers entered through an internal gate and placed chains on the doors. This is the court that reviews laws against the Polish constitution. For years it has been the flashpoint between Tusk’s government and the previous PiS-appointed judges. President Karol Nawrocki was already in the air on a flight to Senegal when the news broke. He posted that he is interrupting the trip and returning to Poland: “In such a moment the President must be in Poland.” The frames show helmeted police outside the tribunal at night and the street coverage from the scene. The takeover is the claim from the opposition side. The government has not published its own account of the entry in the posts linked. Who orders the police into the constitutional court — the prime minister who controls the government, or the president who is now flying back?