It's about the terrain the Koło cooperative housing estate in Wola at Górczewska and Ksczenia Janusza streets. There are apartment blocks from the 1970s in this area. About 1.5 thousand people live there. people.
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In the 1950s, a cooperative was established, residents made financial contributions, and in the 1990s they bought apartments. In other cases, these apartments were compensation for property lost during the war.
This area of Ulrychów was incorporated into the city in 1951. Earlier, on the basis of the agricultural reform, the land belonging to the pre-war company C. Ulrich, founded in 1805 in Warsaw and based in Gdynia, was nationalized.
In 1994, based on old shares (considered by some people to be collector's items) property claims have appeared to some of the land on which, since the 1970s, there have been, among others, apartment blocks, school, kindergarten and public roads.
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As a result of, among others, judgment of the District Court in Warsaw from 2025, in which the application for adverse possession of land by the State Treasury, represented by the President of Warsaw, was dismissed, the situation became more complicated, opening the way to claims for compensation for the use of these lands.
Residents of the Koło cooperative housing estate in Wola protest in front of the Ministry of Justice
On Wednesday, residents of the estate gathered in front of the Ministry of Justice, who submitted a petition to Minister Waldemar Żurek regarding their case. They appealed to him to get involved in the case and to provide ministerial supervision to the ongoing court proceedings.
— This is an unprecedented case when based on numismatic papers that had only historical and collector's value, an attempt is made to take over the entire housing estate in Warsaw's Wola district. Several hundred residents are at risk of losing their apartments, the kindergarten, school, public roads, and the safety of hundreds of people and thousands of students' parents are at risk – said city activist Jan Śpiewak.
Piotr Pałka, representing the residents, said that managed to obtain court security suspending the first resolutions appointing the governing bodies of the pre-war company.
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– This is a temporary solution, where the court has already abandoned the legal justification, pointing out that these claims have no basis, which means it shared our arguments at this stage – he added.
As residents calculated, Lokaty Budowlane wants compensation of PLN 55 million from the cooperatives along with interest.
The Minister of Justice responds to residents. Waldemar Żurek will “take a look” at the case
The Minister of Justice, who explained in an interview with PAP that wanted to meet the residents, but unfortunately he already had an outgoing meeting in his calendar and could not postpone it, he informed that he must first look at all the decisions that have been made in this case.
“We also know that the prosecutor's proceedings were conducted. I do not yet have full information from the prosecutor's office as to why they were discontinued. I don't even know yet whether the discontinuation is final. “We will definitely try to look at this case from the perspective of prosecutors.” – he said.
Waldemar Żurek emphasized that he did not ignore this matter, but its legal status is very complicated. He recalled that there were already cases when pre-war companies reactivated their operations and the prosecutor's office found irregularities, e.g. attempts to extort land.
He said he would also look into the case from a judicial perspective.
“We will appeal, among others, to the administrative court to find out when these cases can be resolved,” he noted.
He emphasized that one of the judgments in this case, which was made in the Supreme Court, was issued by the wrong bench, which included the so-called neojudges. “This is also important from the point of view that we already have a ruling from one of the legal chambers of the Supreme Court that judgments issued by neo-judges in the Supreme Court should be considered null and void. – he said.
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He emphasized that in this case information is being collected all the time.
“I am not in favor of promising pears on willow, because I am aware that these legal situations from the previous era are extremely complicated. I can say that we will definitely look into it and see what can be done legally. Is it a simple matter where it is necessary to regulate the legal status, or is there some hidden meaning behind it that is dangerous,” he noted.
