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Poland arrests man planning bomb attack on government

20 November 2012 15:12 (UTC +04:00)

Baku – APA. Polish officials said on Tuesday they had arrested a radical nationalist who planned to detonate a vehicle loaded with four metric tons of explosives outside parliament, possibly when the president and prime minister were in the building, APA reports quoting Reuters. The suspected plot was the first of its kind to be exposed since Poland threw off Communist rule more than 20 years ago. It is likely to put intense scrutiny on radical right-wing groups in Poland which are fiercely opposed to the liberal government.

"The case looks very serious," Pawel Gras, a government spokesman, told a local radio station. "We know that the possible targets were to be the president, the parliament and the government." Prosecutors said the man, a scientist who works for a university in the southern city of Krakow, had assembled a small arsenal of explosive material, guns and remote-controlled detonators and was trying to recruit others to help him.

"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.