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Police detain far-right streamer 'Jaszczur' to take him to prison over hate speech
Wojciech Olszański, known as Jaszczur, was detained by Polish police on 22 October 2026 to be taken to a correctional facility under a court order. Ministers said the state was acting, but the reports do not agree on which sentence the detention enforces.
In brief
Police detained Wojciech Olszański on 22 October 2026 to take him to a correctional facility, acting on a court order according to Interior and Administration Minister Marcin Kierwiński.
Police and ministers did not specify the sentence. Reports cite a one and a half year restriction of liberty from the Gdańsk appeal court and a three-month prison term in a September report.
The Gdańsk Court of Appeal ruled in September, cutting the sentence from two years to one and a half years of restriction of liberty, with 20 hours of unpaid community work per month.
- 2022Speech at a rally in Grudziądz that led to the hate speech conviction
- September 2026Gdańsk Court of Appeal convicts him and cuts the sentence to one and a half years of restriction of liberty
- 22 OctPolice detain him to take him to a correctional facility
Police detain Olszański on a court order
Police detained Wojciech Olszański, known as Jaszczur, on 22 October 2026 to take him to a correctional facility. Interior and Administration Minister Marcin Kierwiński announced the detention on X, saying it followed a court order, and added the phrase 'Państwo działa' ('The state works'). Justice Minister Waldemar Żurek responded with his own post on X.
“Everyone who breaks the law will answer for it. As I announced: zero tolerance for criminals.”
The Warsaw Police issued a press release, also posted on X, describing what happens to the detained man next.
“After the necessary procedural steps are completed, the man will be brought to a remand prison to serve a custodial sentence, as the court has ordered.”
Neither the police nor the ministers said which sentence the detention is meant to enforce.
The Grudziądz conviction
Olszański was convicted of publicly inciting hatred against Jewish people during a speech at a 2022 rally in Grudziądz. The Gdańsk Court of Appeal ruled in September, changing a verdict first issued by the Toruń District Court and cutting the sentence from two years to one and a half years of restriction of liberty. That penalty requires 20 hours of unpaid, supervised community work per month. Presiding judge Rafał Ryś said when the verdict was read that the court found Olszański had attributed negative traits to Jewish people and presented them as enemies of Poland. The court also held that Polish law does not criminalise nationalist views as such, but that such views must stay within the law and that freedom of speech is not absolute.
After the verdict, Olszański told reporters that he had received a sentence and would serve it.
Conflicting reports on the sentence
A September report described a three-month unconditional prison term for antisemitic and homophobic remarks made during a 2022 online broadcast. That figure does not match the restriction-of-liberty ruling from the Gdańsk appeal court. Another report puts the conviction for the Grudziądz speech on 2 September. The articles do not resolve which penalty applies, and none of them gives the length of the term now being enforced or a release date.
Movement and party background
TVP Info describes Olszański as a patostreamer and the leader of the far-right, nationalist Kamraci movement. He founded the party Rodacy Kamraci in 2023. Media reported in November 2025 that a court had removed the party from the register of political parties. TVP Info also says he had been convicted before for inciting hatred and for calls for killings. The detention on 22 October is the latest step in a series of legal proceedings against him.