Grzegorz Braun did not appear at the hearing at the prosecutor's office

The leader of the Confederation of the Crown of Poland, MEP Grzegorz Braun, once again failed to appear at the hearing at the District Prosecutor's Office in Wrocław. He was to hear six charges, including violating the physical integrity of doctor Gizela Jagielska. The politician presented an excuse.

As the spokesman for the District Prosecutor's Office in Wrocław, Prosecutor Damian Pownuk, informed on Wednesday, Braun did not appear at the scheduled hearing. The day before, he sent investigators an excuse for his absence. He explained it by the duties related to the mandate of an MEP.

– At the same time, Mr. Braun indicated the dates on which he could appear at the prosecutor's office. In this situation, it will be up to the reporting prosecutor to set a new date for the hearing. I think it corresponds to the date he indicated, said prosecutor Pownuk.

The investigator did not specify what dates he was talking about, but said that they were close dates and the MEP provided several of them. He also emphasized that it is not possible to bring an MEP to the prosecutor's office without the consent of the European Parliament. This requires a separate consent for detention and removal.

He added that if the absence is unjustified and unexcused, the prosecutor may apply for such consent.

This is the second attempt to bring charges against Braun. His previous hearing was scheduled for February 17. The leader of the Confederation of the Crown of Poland then appeared at the prosecutor's office, but submitted a request to exclude prosecutor Karolina Stockej-Mycek, who was a clerk of the proceedings, from the investigation. For this reason, Braun was not charged and the activities were suspended until the application was considered.

On February 25, the deputy district prosecutor in Wrocław rejected this request. Proc. However, Stocka-Mycek is not continuing the investigation in which Braun is to be charged, because she was previously promoted to the Regional Prosecutor's Office in Wrocław. A new clerk was appointed to the case.

Braun was to be charged with six counts. Four of them concern events in the Oleśnica hospital in April last year. This concerns the unlawful deprivation of liberty of a doctor in a hospital in Oleśnica, violating her bodily integrity (by pushing and holding her with her hands), verbally insulting her while performing her official duties, and accusing her of actions that could undermine trust in the medical profession.

On April 16, 2025, the politician broke into the District Hospital Complex in Oleśnica and tried to prevent gynecologist Gizela Jagielska from working. He claimed he was making a citizen's arrest. The doctor, reporting to PAP what happened in the Oleśnica hospital, said, among other things, that Braun broke into the administrative department, blocked her path and locked her in the administration room.

Further charges concern the destruction of posters in March 2025 in Opole and incitement to commit crimes in a program published on the Internet. This event was scheduled to occur on December 14, 2023.

On November 13 last year, the European Parliament voted in favor of lifting the immunity of Grzegorz Braun, which paved the way for the Wrocław prosecutor's office to announce charges.

In the investigation conducted by the Wrocław prosecutor's office into the events at the hospital in Oleśnica, charges have so far been brought against activist of the Confederation of the Crown of Poland, Marta C., and four other people. Marta C. will be held accountable for depriving the doctor Gizela Jagielska of her liberty by preventing her from leaving the doctor's office at the hospital in Oleśnica during the “citizen's arrest” carried out by Braun. Investigators also accuse her of violating the doctor's bodily integrity by holding her with her hands during and in connection with the performance of her professional duties as a doctor.

On December 10 last year, the District Prosecutor's Office in Oleśnica discontinued the investigation into the illegal abortion performed by doctor Gizela Jagielska in an Oleśnica hospital. The proceedings were initiated at the beginning of 2025 after media reports claiming that an unlawful termination of pregnancy had been performed at the hospital in Oleśnica. According to the prosecutor's office, the doctor's termination of pregnancy on October 29, 2024 at the District Hospital Complex in Oleśnica and her other actions related to this procedure did not have “the hallmarks of a prohibited act”. (PAP)

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