President Karol Nawrocki, Poland’s head of state aligned with the right-wing Law and Justice party (PiS), canceled a Friday trip to Senegal and is heading back to Warsaw amid what his allies are calling a “coup d’état.”

Metropolitan Police Headquarters announced Friday that its officers are “carrying out statutory activities at the premises of the Constitutional Tribunal in Warsaw” — the nation’s highest court. Authorities have removed security from the premises and put up barriers around the area as they attempt to restore “public order” amid a forced change of leadership.

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