Sebastian M. detained in ZAA. “Everyone who hides will go into our hands”

Sebastian M., suspected of causing a fatal accident at A1, was detained in the United Arab Emirates, police said. Everyone who hides in a foreign state from justice will sooner or later go into our hands – emphasized Prime Minister Donald Tusk referring to the matter.

Sebastian M. is suspected of causing a fatal accident on the A1 motorway, in which a family of three died.

“Yesterday (May 23 this year) in the United Arab Emirates, the search for Sebastian M. was detained in cooperation with the Polish police. The suspect will go to Poland in the near future and will be transferred to the prosecutor's disposal,” the police said on Saturday morning in the entry on Platform X.

Spokeswoman for the Police Headquarters insp. Katarzyna Nowak announced on Saturday that transport to Sebastian M.'s country will take place within a few or several days. It will come to Poland by a cruise plane, because the situation does not require medical transport – she added. As she noted, the man was hiding, changed his place of residence and cars, and he masked his identity.

The case was commented on in social media by the head of government, announcing that Sebastian M. will now be dealt with by the Polish prosecutor's office. “Everyone who hides in a foreign state from the Polish justice dimension, sooner or later will go into our hands” – emphasized the prime minister. At the same time, he thanked Polish diplomats and policemen who “undertook this difficult surgery.”

Sebastian M. detained in the Emirates. Now it will be dealt with by the Polish prosecutor's office. Thank you to our diplomats and policemen who undertook this difficult surgery. Everyone who hides in a foreign state from the Polish justice dimension will sooner or later will go into our hands.

– Donald Tusk (@donaldtusk) May 24, 2025

Also the head of the Ministry of Interior and Administration Tomasz Siemoniak congratulated the Polish services. “Good police, prosecutor's office and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs!” – the minister wrote at X. As he assessed, this is a success that shows that he would not run anywhere before the Polish justice dimension. “Whoever is guilty, especially in such an obvious, tragic matter, will be prosecuted by us at the very end of the world” – emphasized Siemoniak.

He expects Sebastian M. to hear a strict sentence. “There will never be permission for this kind of activity, for the threat that this person created,” he noted.

Minister of Justice, Prosecutor General Adam Bodnar on May 15 informed that the authorities of the United Arab Emirates agreed to the extradition of Sebastian M.

The Police Headquarters recently explained that the suspect in the UAA was not at the disposal of the law enforcement agencies, hence the need to stop it again before completing the extradition procedure to Poland.

KGP assured that immediately after receiving information about the possibility of extradition from the Polish Ministry of Justice or sending it to the Office of International Police Cooperation KGP, Polish policemen will do everything to bring Sebastian M. to Poland as soon as possible and put the prosecutor's office.

The accident at A1 occurred in September 2023 in Sierosław near Piotrków Trybunalski. Parents and their five -year -old son died in the car; Sebastian M.

After the accident, the man escaped from Europe. At the behest of the then prosecutor General Zbigniew Ziobra, a arrest warrant was issued behind him. M. was also wanted on the basis of the red note Interpol. The police in the United Arab Emirates supported by the Polish special search group stopped him in Dubai. He was released from custody for deposit and, according to media reports, received the so -called A golden visa, giving him the status of a resident.

The Polish prosecutor's office, as part of the extradition procedure, applied for the issue of Sebastian M. to Poland. In January, the Court of Appeal in Dubai, deciding as a court of first instance, stated “unlawfully legal admissibility of extradition Sebastian M. to Poland.” This ruling was appealed in February by a man, and at the beginning of May the Supreme Court of the United Arab Emirates finally considered extradition to be permissible. (PAP)

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