Polish Government Accuses Polish Constitutional Tribunals Of Being Secret Service Collaborators

Warsaw, Poland May 10, 2007. In the second day of hearings on Poland's lustration law in front of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal the lawyer for the Polish Government asked for the dismissal of two Judges who he claims were Secret Service collaborators . After consideration, they were removed from further proceedings.

The lawyer, Arkadiusz Mularczyk, a member of the Law and Justice Party, said that there is material in the Institute of National remembrances where the Secret Service files are stored that show two Judges, Marian Grzybowski and Adam Jamróz, were operational contacts for the Secret Services.

Both Judges filed statements under the old lustration law and the new lustration law.

Some initial comments by obervers take his motion as an accusation that the Judges lied on their lustration statements.

Mularczyk asked for a delay in the proceedings. But it appears the proceedings will go forward without the two judges.

Ryszard Kalisz, lawyer for the complaining party SLD that is contesting the lustration law before the Court, said that sending people to research files in the archives all night shows that the case presented by the Government is under the control of the Minister of Justice.