In brief
Łukasz Mejza, an independent MP, brought Daniel Magical, a patostreamer with a criminal record, into the Sejm while the chamber debated a law to ban such broadcasting.
Equality minister Katarzyna Kotula said she would ask the Sejm chancellery and Marshal’s Guard to clarify who authorised Magical’s entry and whether they knew his background.
Ministers Barbara Nowacka and Robert Biedroń, along with MP Alicja Łepkowska-Gołaś, sharply criticised the presence of the patostreamer, with Biedroń calling it ‘two criminals in one photo’.
Magical told reporters he was invited by Mejza and wanted to counter what he called slander by MEP Biedroń, claiming people ‘laugh at us and spit on us’.
The incident
On 10 June, Łukasz Mejza, now an independent MP after leaving the Law and Justice (PiS) club, appeared on the Sejm corridors with Daniel Zwierzyński, an internet personality known for live-streaming violence and alcohol abuse under the alias Daniel Magical. Magical’s partner Natalia was also present. The patostreamer told reporters he had been invited by Mejza and had come to “fight for my own” and to push back against what he called slander by MEP Robert Biedroń.
“Wherever we show up, people point at us as pathology, they laugh at us, they spit on us.”
A man identifying himself as an assistant to MP Paweł Kukiz said Mejza “became interested in the case” and wanted to address it “from a parliamentary position.”
Immediate political backlash
The sight of Mejza walking with Magical prompted swift condemnation on social media. Education minister Barbara Nowacka called it “terrible,” while Civic Coalition MP Alicja Łepkowska-Gołaś wrote “Mejza parades through the Sejm with Daniel Magical. Pathology in the Sejm. Downfall.” MEP Robert Biedroń posted “Two criminals in one photo. Neither of them should ever have been in the Sejm.” Minister for equality Katarzyna Kotula labelled the episode “pathology promoting pathology” and announced she would formally request the Sejm chancellery and the Marshal’s Guard to clarify under what rules a convicted patostreamer gained access, who formally sponsored his entry, and whether the security services knew who he was or raised any objections.
“I will ask the Sejm chancellery and the Marshal’s Guard to explain on what basis the convicted patostreamer Daniel M. was in the Sejm today.”
“Two criminals in one photo. Neither of them should ever have been in the Sejm.”
The law under debate
The row broke out on the same day the Sejm was holding the second reading of a bill to criminalise the live broadcast of illegal acts. The draft legislation, introduced by MP Monika Rosa, proposes prison terms of between three months and five years for spreading via networks the commission of crimes against life, health, freedom, decency, family or animal cruelty. A companion amendment to the misdemeanour code would add arrest, restriction of liberty or fines for lesser forms of such content. Kotula noted the timing was “not a good signal” when parliament was trying to send a clear message that patostreaming has no place anywhere.
The wider context
Daniel Magical has been convicted for assault, insulting people online and inducing false testimony. In the past he praised the murder of Gdańsk mayor Paweł Adamowicz and his streams featured public drunkenness and humiliation. Despite repeated bans on platforms such as TikTok and Kick, he and his partner continue trying to broadcast. According to data cited in reporting, as many as one-third of Polish seventh- and eighth-graders have come into contact with patostreaming, and 84 per cent of children aged 13–15 know what it is.
- Contact among 7th-8th graders
- 33 %
- Awareness among 13-15-year-olds
- 84 %
Data from the article text
Kotula stressed that if the guard or the chancellery were unaware who was being given access, safeguards must be introduced to prevent such entries in future.