The prosecutor's office is examining the notifications regarding the Ombudsman for Children

As explained by prosecutor Skiba, the first notification concerned making criminal threats and insulting a public official in connection with the performance of official duties by directing vulgar words and announcements of direct physical attack to the Ombudsman for Children and the employees of the Office of the Ombudsman for Children via the Instagram messenger, i.e. using violence or unlawful threats in order to force the public official (or a person assisting him) to undertake or refrain from a legal official act and insulting a public official.

Due to the content of the notification and the application formulated therein, the prosecutor's office asked the Metropolitan Police Commander to consider the application of protection measures for the victims, he said.

The second report was submitted regarding the crime of insulting a public official and racism. It concerns the public dissemination on the website www.gazetawarszawska.com on the "Jewish occupation" subpage of a publication titled "MP M. Kowalski: Mrs. M. Horna-Cieślak betrayed, above all, the good of the child." A preliminary analysis of the content of the above-mentioned website leads to the conclusion that the website contains content inciting hatred and insulting people of nationality other than Polish - said prosecutor Skiba.

Both notifications were submitted to the Warsaw-Śródmieście District Prosecutor's Office, but in accordance with the subject matter jurisdiction, they were forwarded to the Warsaw-Ursynów District Prosecutor's Office as the unit competent to conduct proceedings in cases of bias-motivated crimes. At the same time, last week, the National Prosecutor's Office received a notification about a crime, including: abuse of powers by children's rights ombudsman Monika Horna-Cieślak. This concerns the suspicion of committing a crime of abuse of powers and a false accusation. The notification is to be examined by the District Prosecutor's Office in Szczecin. It is related to an intervention involving a family from Warsaw's Białołęka, described by the website Zero.pl.

The circumstances of the incident

The incident described by the portal took place in August this year. According to the website, Horna-Cieślak, while walking on the sidewalk in Warsaw's Białołęka district, noticed a woman who was pulling her child and shouting at it. The spokeswoman pointed it out to her, to which the woman responded by using vulgar words. Horna-Cieślak notified the police about the case, who, under pressure, according to the portal, issued an order for the parents to leave the apartment and a ban on approaching the children, which resulted in the three- and four-year-old being placed in a care and educational facility.

The portal - citing the words of the family court - reported that the actions taken by the RPD "may clearly bear signs of institutional violence" and "the state and official machinery was activated here in a way that was grossly disproportionate to the event that occurred." In an interview with PAP, RPD refuted these allegations, explaining that it acted within its competences, out of concern for the safety of children, and the family involved in the intervention was known to the services and was, among others, covered by the Blue Card procedure.