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The spokesperson for the Polish Ministry of Special Services, Jacek Dobrzyński, announced this Tuesday the detention of a student Pole suspected of planning a bomb attack against a Christmas market on behalf of the Islamic State jihadist group.
Through a message published on the X platform, Dobrzyński explained that the detainee, identified as Mateusz W“had been acquiring knowledge about how to self-taught the materials that would be used in the terrorist act”.
Furthermore, the spokesperson noted that the detainee “was also planning to join a terrorist organization to obtain help in carrying out his attack.”
The suspect is a student at the Catholic University of Lublin (KUL), who was arrested at the end of November in that city in eastern Poland by agents of the Internal Security Agency (ABW).
In the course of the investigation, ABW agents seized data storage devices and “articles related to Islam.”
The National Prosecutor’s Office, for its part, reported that Mateusz W. has been charged with “preparing a terrorist attack that could have caused the death or serious injury of many people.”
The investigation is being led by the Szczecin (north) section of the ABW, under the supervision of the National Prosecutor’s Office and, by court decision, the detainee will spend at least the next three months in preventive detention.
In recent years, Poland has not suffered completed jihadist attacks on its territory, but several cases of individual radicalization and preparation of attacks inspired by the self-proclaimed Islamic State that were prevented by the security services have been reported.
In 2015, Polish Dawid L. was arrested in Radom (center). He was later sentenced to 15 years in prison for raising funds for a terrorist organization and planning attacks against the state.