The event—timed to coincide with Europe’s Day of Justice—is designed to demystify the judiciary and highlight how courts “stand guard over citizens’ rights and freedoms,” the ministry said in a statement.
Visitors to the district court in the north-central city of Bydgoszcz will be able to watch a re-enactment of a 17th-century witchcraft prosecution, while the regional court in Włocławek, northwest of Warsaw, will stage a dramatized hearing of the 1932 murder case against socialite Rita Gorgonowa.
In Racibórz in the south, actors will revisit the 1970s trial of serial killer Zdzisław Marchwicki, dubbed the “Vampire of Zagłębie,” and display a communist-era courtroom office with vintage equipment.
A regional court in Radom, 100 kilometers south of Warsaw, has enlisted police and prison officers to demonstrate the arrest of a suspect, a custody hearing and a hostage-rescue drill in its car park.
Warsaw’s Praga district court will offer guided tours of holding cells, archives and court police facilities, plus a mock mediation session and a lecture by probation officers on online hate among teenagers.
Gdynia’s court on the Baltic coast will lead visitors “along the trail of court documents” from filing room to archive.
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Source: PAP