It could be a village festival at the end of summer. Pop music blares from loudspeakers competing with the screams of children playing. Only a few dozen local people have turned out but they listen with interest, arms folded, on the wide expanse of green.
This is Biłgoraj, a small town in south-eastern Poland not far from the Ukrainian border. The event is no festival, however. It is, its organisers claim, part of the last battle to save Polish democracy.
In a T-shirt, washed-out jeans and Chucks, Igor Tuleya moves through the crowd. Again and again, he stops and hands someone a booklet from a bundle under his arm: the slim document with a crowned eagle on the red and white cover, is Poland's constitution.
Tuleya is a judge in the district of Warsaw; the constitution the foundation of his work. For now. As the governing Law and Justice party (PiS) steps up its six-year campaign to "reform" Poland's courts, the constitution is at the centre of a deepening crisis within Poland's borders and between Poland and Europe.
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