The incident occurred during a visit to the Bolesławiec Ceramic Works, where Andrzej Duda admired Bolesławiec ceramics. During a walk through one of the halls, a man leapt out from behind a shelf of bisque ware and, jumping at the president, shouted “constitution!”.
The attacker had painted his face black, with tears painted on it symbolizing—as the clay figure later admitted—despair over the violation of the most important legal act of the Republic of Poland.
The painted attacker was immediately apprehended by officers of the State Protection Service. At first, the shocked president was convinced that an economic migrant from Africa had attacked him. Only when he saw that the officers who detained the prankster had been stained black did the president understand that it was a dyed white man—and, moreover, a Pole.
It has not yet been established how the man entered the premises of the Works. It is possible that Wiesław Ogrodnik invited him himself, as even before the local elections he sympathized with clay figures. Of course, if Ogrodnik invited the man, it was certainly for a purpose other than frightening the head of state.
To make matters worse, Wiesław Ogrodnik was so shaken by the entire incident that, while apologizing to the president, he called him Adrian. “Mr. Adrian, are you all right?!” the ceramics company president shouted to the president, then immediately corrected himself. “I’m sorry, Mr. Andrzej, it’s the nerves,” he explained.
Following this unfortunate visit, president Ogrodnik faces unpleasant consequences and a great deal of explaining to do before SOP officers.
(this is an unbelievable news story; the situation involving the president described here is not real, but it is true that Wiesław Ogrodnik sympathized with clay figures during his own campaign for president of Bolesławiec)