File photo: Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk (Picture credit: AP)
She said a meeting would take place at 11 am local time at the Internal Security Agency’s Counter-Terrorism Centre. By Sunday morning, police had detained 117 people across Poland for carrying knives or other dangerous weapons, or for threatening attacks against schools or fellow students. Authorities had checked around 64,000 schools, according to AP. Tusk had also said in 2024 that he received threats following the assassination attempt on Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico.
Polish security services were due to hold an emergency meeting on Sunday after police received information about a possible attack on Prime Minister Donald Tusk and defence minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, authorities said. The exact nature and origin of the reported threat were not immediately clear.
The meeting was ordered by interior minister Marcin Kierwiński and Tomasz Siemoniak, the minister-coordinator of special services, according to a statement posted on X by Interior Ministry spokesperson Karolina Galecka. “Following information received by the Polish Police regarding a possible attack …interior minister, Marcin Kierwiński, and the minister-coordinator of Special Services, Tomasz Siemoniak, have ordered action to be taken in this matter,” Galecka wrote. Speaking at a crisis meeting with government and security officials on Sunday, Tusk said the school attacks were “spontaneous acts” driven by the online “glorification of violence”.