Krzysztof N., 66, was charged on Tuesday, 13 October, with nine offences, including planning forcible overthrow of state bodies with explosives, which carries 2 to 15 years in prison, according to Warsaw District Prosecutor's Office spokesman Piotr Antoni Skiba.
Investigators secured a dozen or so improvised explosive devices, a crossbow and computers at the man's home during a multi-hour search on Sunday, 11 October, and a preliminary expert opinion likens the devices to fragmentation grenades.
The Interior Ministry said on Sunday, 11 October, that police had received information about a possible attack on Donald Tusk and Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, and a man reported as about 60 years old was detained that afternoon.
On Monday, 12 October, police in Oborniki detained a 46-year-old man suspected of publicly calling online for the killing of Polish officials, including the prime minister and the Sejm Marshal, according to government spokesman Adam Szłapka.
Prosecutors asked a court for temporary arrest, and the man did not admit the offences or give explanations, according to Piotr Antoni Skiba on Tuesday, 13 October.
On Sunday, 11 October, the Interior Ministry said police had received information about a possible attack on Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Deputy Prime Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, who is also defence minister. According to Interior Minister Marcin Kierwiński, the tip reached the State Protection Service (SOP) through one informant. Representatives of police, the SOP and the Internal Security Agency (ABW) met at the ABW's Anti-Terrorist Centre, and that afternoon a man reported as about 60 years old was detained. Prosecutors later gave his age as 66 and said he is a Polish citizen living in Wrocław, detained in Lower Silesia. Kierwiński said the man appeared to belong to "very radical groups" and had "very radical contacts" with various people online. Tusk and Kosiniak-Kamysz thanked the services for their quick action that afternoon.
On Tuesday, 13 October, Piotr Antoni Skiba, spokesman for the Warsaw District Prosecutor's Office, said Krzysztof N. faced nine charges. The most serious, planning to forcibly overthrow state bodies, including the prime minister and the Council of Ministers, using explosives, carries 2 to 15 years in prison. The other eight cover public calls for violence to influence political decisions, promoting an ideology of seizing power by force, promoting an aggressive war, including the one in Ukraine, and inciting hatred on national, ethnic, racial and political grounds. Those eight offences carry up to 3 years, and in two cases 3 months to 5 years. Skiba said the man did not admit the offences and refused to give explanations.
Police and SOP officers searched the man's home for several hours on Sunday, 11 October. Investigators secured a dozen or so improvised explosive devices, along with a crossbow, pneumatic or alarm weapons, computers and data storage media. Prosecutors said the discovery of the materials changed their assessment of his activity from declaratory to executive. Skiba described the preliminary expert opinion on the devices:
“The preliminary opinion is that these are improvised materials, explosive devices with characteristics similar to fragmentation grenades.”
Prosecutors plan a procedural experiment in the coming days to establish the range and force of fragments from an explosion. They have also asked a court to order temporary arrest, and a medical certificate says his health allows custody with appropriate drug therapy. Skiba explained the request:
“Taking into account the developing nature of these proceedings, the prosecutor decided to file a motion for temporary arrest, guided not only by the severe penalty and not only by the fear of tampering with evidence, but above all by the threat of committing a serious crime against life and health.”
Prosecutors said an anonymous message sent to the SOP included a recording of a conversation between the man and a whistleblower. On the recording, the man said he was looking online for people who shared his wish to overthrow the existing order by force. Skiba said the recording shows several hundred people of different ages and sexes across Poland gathering around him. On Monday, 12 October, police in Oborniki detained a 46-year-old man suspected of publicly calling online for the killing of Polish officials, including the prime minister and the Sejm Marshal. Government spokesman Adam Szłapka reported the detention on Tuesday, 13 October, and said that man was due to be questioned by Warsaw prosecutors that day.
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Warsaw prosecutors charged Krzysztof N. with nine offences on Tuesday, 13 October, and asked a court to order temporary arrest. Investigators say they found improvised explosive devices at his home in Wrocław, where he lives.
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