Europe11 October, 20262 min read
Polish Security Services Hold Emergency Meeting Over Possible Attack on Donald Tusk
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Polish security services held an emergency meeting over an assassination plot against Tusk and Kosiniak-Kamysz. Threat information received by police triggered the meeting.
Poland convenes security meeting
Polish security services convened a special meeting after police received information about a possible attack on Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz. Interior Ministry spokesperson Karolina Galecka said Interior Minister Marcin Kierwinski and Tomasz Siemoniak, the minister responsible for coordinating intelligence services, had ordered action.
The meeting was scheduled for 11 am at the Internal Security Agency’s Counter-Terrorism Centre, as Radio Zet reported police received the information by email. The threat’s nature and source were not immediately clear, and a spokesperson for the minister-coordinator said he had no further comment.
Threat context and school violence
Poland’s alert came as authorities stepped up security following three attacks at educational institutions in four days, including a caretaker killed and two teachers injured at a primary school northeast of Warsaw on Thursday. Police said they had inspected around 50,000 facilities since Friday and detained 76 people, with authorities earlier saying most detainees were teenagers accused of posting threats online.
Tusk said the school attacks were "spontaneous acts" driven by the online "glorification of violence," and he added, "We are not dealing with any group organised on a big scale," during a crisis meeting. Tusk also said some of the people detained were active in the ultra-right environment, and he pointed to intensified online searches of Nazi content and "mass killers who have become idols online."
Earlier threats and what is at stake
Poland’s security response followed earlier threats to politicians, including police detaining a 23-year-old man accused of calling for the assassination of senior Polish politicians less than two months earlier. Investigators said a post in an online firearms group called for the “elimination” of several people and proposed an assassination attempt, and a prosecutor said the alleged targets were from Poland’s two largest parties.
Tusk reported receiving threats after the May 2024 assassination attempt on Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, and Moscow denied allegations that Russia was behind the earlier threats. Poland’s officials also raised security concerns linked to the war in Ukraine, with Tusk warning in September that Russia could intensify hybrid attacks against countries supporting Kyiv, including Poland.