Poland investigates an alleged plan to attack Tusk and the Minister of Defense

Poland's security forces are investigating a threat of an attack against the Prime Minister, the conservative Donald Tusk, and the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defense, Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz. According to information released by spokespersons for several ministries, the police received “particularly worrying” information about a plan to attack the head of the Government and the person responsible for the country's military affairs. Hours later, the two politicians in the spotlight reported in separate messages on X that the police had the alleged author of the threat.

It is not the first time that these types of alerts have been received, the spokespersons said in the morning. The threat was, however, credible enough to call an emergency meeting of the State security services at 11:00.

Although the situation was “obviously serious”, Tusk continued to work normally, as reported by government spokesman Adam Szlapka in statements to Polsat News in the morning. Szlapka explained that both the head of the Government and Kosiniak-Kamysz had been informed this Sunday at 7:00 of the plan to attack them. The spokesperson stressed that the threat was “especially worrying,” without giving further details.

The prime minister appeared before the press precisely on Sunday morning, without mentioning the alleged plot to attack him. The Chief Executive reported on the security device deployed since Thursday due to the alarming succession of armed attacks by teenagers against educational centers. In four days, three have been carried out - the last, this Saturday -, with more than a dozen injured and one dead. Faced with the threat of a “bloody Friday” with more attacks, the police have inspected 64,000 educational centers in recent days and arrested 117 young people and adolescents, but for the moment they rule out coordinated action between them.

At the end of that exceptional appearance on a Sunday morning in which those responsible for guaranteeing security in schools met, the spokespersons for the ministries of the Interior and the Coordination of Special Services reported on a new extraordinary meeting. In separate statements published in

In statements to the press after the meeting, Jacek Dobrzyński, spokesman for the coordinating minister of Special Services, reported that the notice about a possible attack, issued by email, first reached the State Protection Service, which verified it and transferred it to the police. "I know that today, on many radio stations, numerous pseudo-experts express their disbelief that we have made this information public. But I want to emphasize that this is an extremely serious matter," Dobrzyński stressed.

"Month after month, year after year, the police, the State Protection Service and other services receive an increasing number of threats and intimidations related to Poland and Polish citizens. In this case, we are talking about threats directed against the most important people in the country, threats that affect the security and life of the prime minister and the deputy prime minister," the spokesperson insisted, as reported by Polsat News. Although he did not reveal more details, he assured that on this occasion there was "a high probability that these threats will materialize."

Around five in the afternoon, the prime minister reported in X: "The man who threatened with an attack has been arrested. Thanks to the police for their quick and decisive action." According to Rzeczpospolita, the arrest took place in the city of Wrocław and the detainee, 60 years old, has a record of petty theft and non-payment of child support.

The television network TVN24 has had access to a report from the security services according to which, “the complainant [who informed the security forces by email] contacted a radical organization through social networks in search of volunteers to carry out an attack with firearms.” “He reportedly met with a man named Krzysztof, with whom he spoke about weapons, his hatred of the Government and planning a massacre,” the document adds.

The statements of the experts who suggested that behind the revelation of the plans for the attack there could be political motivations reflect the lack of trust in the Government of a political and social sector, at a particularly delicate moment. The unusual situation of insecurity and social alarm unleashed in recent days around schools, and now the threat of an attack, occur in a country already stressed by the background of the Russian escalation.