Two further cases of violation of the election silence – damage to the banners in Augustów and painting of the election banners in Bialystok – the police from Podlasie announced on Sunday, June 28th. In total, she has recorded eight violations related to election silence since Saturday.
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By noon on Sunday, the Podlasie police recorded eight violations of election silence: six on Saturday, and two more on Sunday.
On Sunday morning, the police received information about the incident in Augustów, where two election banners were damaged, about another one before noon on one of the streets in Bialystok – here the matter concerns painting the banners.
The police, citing the election silence, do not inform which presidential candidate they are banners.
Marcin Gawryluk from the press team of the Podlasie police said that the activities in both cases are carried out on the basis of art. 67 of the Code of Offenses, which refers, among others to cases of intentional damage or deletion of an advertisement “issued publicly by a state, local government or social organization” or cases where otherwise through intentional action it is impossible to become familiar with such an advertisement. It faces a fine.
On the basis of this article, the police also conduct activities related to four similar incidents of destruction and breaking of electoral banners that occurred on Saturday. The perpetrator of one of them, which occurred in Gródek, the police managed to determine. He is to pay a fine of PLN 150 for removing the banner of one of the candidates.
One Saturday event that occurred in Bialystok and 10 election posters were destroyed in total – the police are investigating in the direction of art. 288 of the Penal Code, which says about the destruction of someone else’s things. It is punishable by imprisonment of up to 5 years. In Wasilków near Białystok, someone hung election posters on the property’s fence without the consent of the owner. The perpetrators face a fine.
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