Riot police have been deployed to Poland‘s top court amid claims of a ‘coup’ after its chief judge was suspended in an escalating battle between Donald Tusk’s government and the nationalist right.
Dozens of officers guarded the entrance to the Constitutional Court in Warsaw on Friday as protesters gathered outside, with some chanting ‘Tusk traitor’.
The extraordinary stand-off prompted President Karol Nawrocki to abandon an official trip to Senegal mid-flight and order his plane back to the Polish capital.
Three people were arrested after trying to enter the court complex, police said, as supporters of the opposition Law and Justice party (PiS) protested
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