Poland reunites its security services after warning of a possible attack against its prime minister and deputy prime minister

The Polish Interior Ministry announced an emergency meeting this Sunday after the police received information about possible assassination attempts against the country's Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, and the head of Defense, Wladyslaw Kosiniak.

The exact nature of the threat and its origin have not been immediately clarified, but the authorities have been ordered to take action "in relation to the information received by the police about a possible attack against the prime minister (...) as well as against the deputy prime minister" who is also Minister of Defense, according to Interior Ministry spokesperson Karolina Galecka on the social network X.

Today at 11:00 a.m. (local time) a meeting will be held at the Anti-Terrorism Center of the Internal Security Agency in which members of the police, the State Protection Service and the internal security agency will participate.

Private radio station Radio Zet reports that police had received an email with information about the threat. Although violent crime is relatively rare in Poland, the country is deeply polarized politically and has faced security threats due to its proximity to the war in Ukraine. In August, police arrested a 23-year-old man on charges of inciting the murder of senior Polish politicians. In 2024, Tusk claimed to have received threats following an assassination attempt against Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico.

Today's announcement comes at a time when authorities in Poland, a NATO and EU member country, are on high alert following a wave of violence in schools that resulted in the death of a janitor last Thursday. The multiple recent knife attacks in the last week were described by Prime Minister Tusk as a "cult of violence."