Not a justice anymore.
The ultimate Administrative Court accepted the resignation of Tomasz Szmydt. The erstwhile justice is subject to disciplinary proceedings. According to the NSA, Szmydt will make a declaration of resignation through the Belarusian embassy in Poland or the Polish embassy in Belarus. But he hasn't done it yet. Instead, he read and published a message of resignation, which the NSA found unambiguous. He so ceased to be a judge.
The Disciplinary Court stripped Thomas Szmydt of immunity, allowed his detention and temporary arrest, and suspended him in his duties. Under the rules of the suspended judge, the remuneration may be reduced, but in the case of Szmydt, who is no longer a judge, he shall not receive any financial means.
@Platforma_org Yeah.
Who called him a judge?
He's quoting.
"Tomasz Szmydt received justice nominations from 3 different presidents. Aleksander Kwasniewski gave him the first, and he received further promotions from Lech Kaczyński and Bronisław Komorowski"
— Rafał.krk 🇵🇱 😎🇵🇸😢 (@KrkRafal) May 10, 2024
The chances of proceeding and charging Szmydt are slim due to the fact that it would should be issued by Belarus after Poland applied for legal aid. However, it is hard to imagine that Minsk would release a individual cooperating with Alexander Lukashenko's regime.
Comment by Alexander Lukashenko
The erstwhile justice was referred to by the leader of Belarus at a conference held on the occasion of the triumph Day. As Lukashenko pointed out:
He's a patriotic, average person. That's why his motion, which he made to me, I'm certain I will.
Lukashenko besides said that Szmydta's full situation had been learned from the media, but intends to analyse it and will most likely follow the motion. The dictator rejected theories that Belarus and Russia recruited refugees from Poland and called it an absurd charge.
Szmydt himself besides reacted to the current situation. He referred questions about the abolition of immunity, arrest and arrest warrants, noting the irony of the situation and commenting on the state of democracy in Poland. He added that there was no time for a long comment and went to the concert.
Good morning to you. I read news and found out about the waiver of immunity, arrest and arrest warrants. There is simply a beautiful democracy in Poland. Funny, I don't have time to comment. one more time greets the Day of triumph and goes to the concert) pic.twitter.com/COMLXEiHQ3
— Szmydt Tomasz (@Smydt_Tomash) May 9, 2024
This is not the first visit to Belarus
Let us remind that at a press conference in Minsk on Monday, Tomasz Szmydt announced that he was asking the Belarusian authorities for asylum. He besides informed about his immediate resignation from the position of justice in Poland, explaining this with a protest against the Polish authorities' policy towards Belarus and Russia.
Szmydt was a justice in the Provincial Administrative Court in Warsaw, and his decision resulted in all proceedings concerning espionage initiated by the National Prosecutor's Office. erstwhile Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki stated that Szmydt was most likely an agent active in state structures for a long time. Previously, peculiar services coordinator Tomasz Siemoniak reported that Szmydt left for Belarus in June 2023, but the service did not take any action.
Szmydt was 1 of the participants in the hatred scandal of the time erstwhile the Law and Justices ruled, which dealt with slandering judges against the improvement of the United Right in the judiciary.
