The leader of the Border Defense Movement will stand trial. There is an indictment against Bąkiewicz

On Wednesday, the prosecutor brought an indictment to court against an activist of the Border Defense Movement, Robert B., accusing him of four crimes, including insulting officers of the Border Guard and Military Police, the District Prosecutor's Office in Gorzów Wielkopolski reported on Wednesday.

The Gorzów District Prosecutor's Office announced that the prosecutor, after conducting and closing the investigation, filed an indictment on December 31, 2025 against 49-year-old Robert B. – an activist of the Border Defense Movement.

He was accused of committing four crimes, including insulting and slandering officers of the Border Guard and Military Police.

This, as we read, “insulting, on June 29, 2025, at the border crossing in Słubice, four officers of the Border Guard and Military Police, calling them traitors during and in connection with the performance of their official duties, accusing these officers of such conduct and characteristics that could humiliate them in public opinion or expose them to the loss of trust needed to perform the duties of officers of the Border Guard and Military Police, by directing statements against them suggesting that they have no honor and that by carrying out the orders of their superiors they disgrace the Polish uniform, as well as an attempt to persuade Border Guard officers to commit the crime of failure to fulfill their official duties, i.e. to refrain from carrying out procedures related to the control of the legality of the stay of foreigners on the territory of the Republic of Poland, and these acts were committed by acting publicly and without reason, thus showing gross disregard for the legal order.

The prosecutor also accused Robert B. of “slandering, on June 29, 2025, a Border Guard officer by posting on the

Another charge against Robert B. concerns – as indicated by the prosecutor – slander on July 3 this year. “various groups of people for conduct that could humiliate them in public opinion and expose them to the loss of trust needed to perform their service and profession by posting on the

The prosecutor also accused the accused of “inciting, in the period from June 19, 2025 to July 18, 2025, hatred based on national, ethnic and racial differences by posting in his posts on the X website and in interviews on YouTube statements that arouse and intensify in their recipients feelings of strong reluctance and hostility towards people of German nationality and immigrants.”

The prosecutor's office announced that “Robert B., who was questioned during the investigation as a suspect regarding the charges, did not admit to committing them and exercised his right to refuse to provide explanations and the right to refuse to answer questions.”

The offenses he is accused of may result in criminal liability: a fine, restriction of liberty or imprisonment from one to three years.

August 18 this year the prosecutor from Gorzów, at the request of the Regional Prosecutor's Office in Szczecin, charged Robert B. with insulting officers of the Border Guard and Military Police at the border in Słubice (Lubuskie). Then, on September 17, B. heard two more charges in the Gorzów prosecutor's office.

The accused is an activist of national circles, he appeared on the Polish-German border as part of the so-called citizen patrols. He also established the so-called Border Defense Movement – a nationwide social initiative whose aim is to “defend Poland against mass migration and the threats related to it.”

Government spokesman Adam Szłapka commented on Wednesday's decision of the prosecutor's office.

“Robert B. with an indictment. Charges: insulting and slandering officers of the Border Guard and Military Police. He faces up to 3 years in prison. Hands off people who guard Poland's security every day,” he wrote on X. (PAP)

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