Polish President Abruptly Reroutes Flight As Police Surround Constitutional Court

What happened: Polish police surrounded the Constitutional Tribunal in Warsaw after Judge Anna Korwin-Piotrowska suspended acting president Bogdan Swieczkowski and acting vice president Bartlomiej Sochanski for a month. President Karol Nawrocki cut short his flight to Senegal and returned. Why it matters: Opposition leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski called the police action a "coup," while the tribunal said its website was illegally taken over and that those involved were committing "the crime of coup d'etat." Prime Minister Donald Tusk said restoring the rule of law is a duty.

Polish police surrounded the Constitutional Tribunal in Warsaw after Judge Anna Korwin-Piotrowska suspended acting president Bogdan Swieczkowski and acting vice president Bartlomiej Sochanski for a month. President Karol Nawrocki cut short his flight to Senegal and returned.

Opposition leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski called the police action a "coup," while the tribunal said its website was illegally taken over and that those involved were committing "the crime of coup d'etat." Prime Minister Donald Tusk said restoring the rule of law is a duty.