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Poland arrests extremist planned to attack parliament

20 November 2012 18:39 (UTC +04:00)

Baku-APA. Polish officials said on Tuesday that they had arrested an extremist who planned to carry out a terrorist bomb attack at the country's parliament, APA reports quoting Xinhua.

Investigators said the suspect, a 45-year old lecturer at a college in Krakow, was driven by "nationalistic, xenophobic and anti-Semitic" motives.

"The suspect does not belong to a political group or party. He claims that he was acting on nationalistic, anti-Semitic and xenophobic motives," prosecutor Mariusz Krason told a news conference.

"He carried out reconnaissance in the neighborhood of the Sejm (parliament). This building was to be the target of the attack. He collected explosives and materials for detonation," he added.

Government spokesman Pawel Gras said that the planned attack, which targeted at "the president, the parliament and the government" looked very serious and that the prime minister had been informed of the issue some ten days ago.

Meanwhile, the spokesman of the Krakow Appellate Prosecutor's Office (PA) which was overseeing the investigation, Piotr Kosmaty, said that the initial proceedings had been launched on November 5 and assigned to the Krakow branch of Internal Security Agency (ABW).