Poland suspends top court head; police deployed amid standoff

Police were deployed outside Poland's Constitutional Tribunal after the government suspended its head judge, sparking protests and deepening the court's political standoff.

• Police were deployed outside the court and entered its premises after demonstrators threw objects, detaining three people.
• Justice Minister Waldemar Zurek requested lifting the immunity of head judge Bogdan Swieczkowski and deputy Bartlomiej Sochanski to pursue criminal charges.
• The tribunal's official X account said the two senior justices remain legally appointed and that the government's actions amount to a coup d'etat.
• President Karol Nawrocki turned his plane back to Warsaw en route to Senegal, saying the president must be in Poland at a moment like this.