Law and Justice (PiS) councilor Lidia B. from Proszowice was placed in pre-trial detention in mid-2025 over accusations that she had abused her husband. She has now been released since early March but is banned from contact with her husband and must leave her home.

Her arrest stemmed from earlier incidents, including one where the PiS councilor allegedly attacked her husband with a knife, wounding him in the thigh. She denied any wrongdoing, but conceded that she and her husband had a dispute.

Investigators claim that this was not an accident and that Lidia B. had been mentally, physically, and emotionally abusing her husband for at least five years via verbal threats, pushing, and shoving. She faces up to five years in prison for these acts if found guilty.

Last August, the Onet news portal reported that PiS politicians were distancing themselves from the case. Stanisław Mierzwa, the head of the party’s Proszowice branch, told Radio Kraków that it was a “marital, family matter.”

“There is no option but to suspend him until these actions are proven. I can only express my condolences to the family, as I do not approve of resorting to physical violence,” commented Ryszard Pagacz, deputy marshal of the PiS voivodeship.

Following the court’s decision not to extend her pre-trial detention, the councilor was placed under other preventive measures. These included police supervision, a restraining order prohibiting her from contacting the victim, and an order to move out of the apartment they share.

Prosecutor Oliwia Bożek-Michalec explained in an interview with Radio ZET that these measures result from the fact that there is a probability that Lidia B., once free, will continue to abuse her husband and that she will commit another crime.