Poland Puts Security Services on Alert Over Reported Threat to PM Tusk and Defense Chief

Polish authorities convened an urgent counter-terrorism meeting after police received information about a possible attack targeting Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.

• Poland's Interior Ministry said police received information of a possible attack on Tusk and Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, without disclosing its source or nature.
• An urgent meeting convened at the counter-terrorism center with police, the State Protection Service, and the Internal Security Agency to assess the threats.
• The alert followed three attacks on Mazovia schools in four days that killed one person and injured others, including a 19-year-old student's attack that injured nine.
• Tusk said investigations show no broad organization behind the school attacks, linking some to internet content glorifying violence.
• Interior ministry spokesperson Karolina Galicka said security services, police and ministry representatives would hold an emergency meeting at 09:00 GMT.
• The alert follows Tusk's September warning of possible intensified hybrid attacks by Russia on NATO's eastern border.
• Special services spokesperson Jacek Dobrzynski said authorities are treating the reported threat information as serious.
• The emergency meeting of police, state protection service and ministry officials was held on Sunday.
• Special services spokesman Jacek Dobrzynski said the reported threat is being treated with 'extreme seriousness' and a high probability of execution.
• Interior ministry officials met Sunday at Internal Security Agency headquarters after a State Protection Service email about the potential attack was forwarded to police.
• The alert follows the August arrest of a 23-year-old suspected of inciting the assassination of prominent Polish political figures.