Suicide of Walery Sławek

The suicide of Walery Sławek occurred on 2 April 1939, when a prominent Sanation politician, close associate of Józef Piłsudski, three-time Prime Minister of the Second Polish Republic, and key architect of the April Constitution, shot himself in the mouth with a pistol in his Warsaw apartment.

Sławek did not die immediately; efforts were made to save him, but he succumbed the following morning in a hospital. In his farewell letter, he did not disclose the reasons for his suicide, leaving the motives subject to ongoing speculation and conjecture.