Possible attempt to assassinate Polish Prime Minister... Arrest of suspect planning attack (comprehensive)

(London = Yonhap News) Correspondent Jiyeon Kim = A man was arrested by police on suspicion of planning an attack on Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.

According to AFP, DPA, and Bloomberg News, Prime Minister Tusk wrote on social media (SNS) on the 11th (local time), "The man who threatened to attack has been arrested."

Interior Minister Marcin Kierbinski also said on social media that "the man who planned and threatened an attack on the prime minister is in police custody."

The announcement of the arrests came hours after the Polish government said it had received information about a possible assassination attempt on Prime Minister Tusk and Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Władysław Kośniakkamys.

Interior Ministry spokeswoman Carolina Galecka said this morning that the ministry was acting on information about a possible assassination attempt. It was also reported that relevant information was passed on to the police through the Office of State Protection (SOP).

Jacek Dobzinski, a spokesman for the Special Services Department, told TVN24 that the suspect was a Polish national and was arrested in the south-west region.

Polish media reported that the gun attack was planned and appeared to be linked to a radical group.

According to TVN24, the informant contacted a radical group on social media looking for volunteers to attack with firearms, and met with a man to discuss weapons, antipathy toward the government and plans for mass murder.

This morning, security agency officials, including the police and the National Protection Agency, held an emergency special meeting regarding this incident.

After the meeting, Dobzhinsky told reporters: "The authorities are treating this matter very seriously. More and more threats and worrying messages are coming into the police, and in this case there is a strong possibility that the threats were carried out."

Authorities did not disclose details about the threat or link it to the war between Russia and Ukraine.

In Poland, recent incidents such as cyber attacks on water and energy infrastructure and hospitals and damage to railway lines have occurred, and concerns have grown about the threat of hybrid attacks from Russia.

Additionally, in Poland, there have been three knife attacks at schools over the past four days, leading to heightened alert. On the 8th, a 15-year-old suspect brandished a weapon at an elementary school, killing a 37-year-old janitor, and on the 7th, 9 people were injured in a knife attack at a vocational school complex. On the 10th, a 21-year-old suspect brandished a weapon and injured three students.

Prime Minister Tusk said at a government meeting this morning that the series of school stabbing incidents appear to be 'nihilistic violence' driven by pessimistic values ​​rather than a specific political ideology.

"We are not dealing with any specific, large-scale organized group. It is often a spontaneous act inspired by online activity," he said, pointing out that online 'glorification of violence' encourages such crimes.