(The Turkish Post) – Polish security services held an emergency meeting on Sunday, Oct. 11, after police received information about a possible plot to attack Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, government officials said.
Officials said there was a high probability that the threats would be carried out, and the government spokesman described the warning as exceptionally concerning. The alert came at the end of a week in which knife attacks at two schools near Warsaw had already put Polish authorities on high readiness.
Services see a high risk of an attack on Donald Tusk
The announcement came from Jacek Dobrzynski, spokesman for the minister who coordinates Poland’s special services. He said the coordinator, Tomasz Siemoniak, and Interior Minister Marcin Kierwinski had ordered action on the case.
Officers of the Internal Security Agency (ABW) met representatives of the police and the State Protection Service (SOP), the agency that guards senior state officials, at 11 a.m. at the agency’s counterterrorism center.
Karolina Galecka, spokeswoman for the Interior Ministry, said the report of a potential attack had first reached the State Protection Service, which passed it on to the police.
Dobrzynski said there was a high probability that the threats against Donald Tusk and the defense minister would be carried out, and that the services were treating the case with the utmost seriousness. He did not say where the information came from or who might be behind it.
He added that the number of threats reaching the police, the State Protection Service and the special services was rising every month.
Kosiniak-Kamysz also named in the threat
Kosiniak-Kamysz, 45, leads the Polish People’s Party, a member of Tusk’s governing coalition, and has served as deputy prime minister and defense minister since December 2023. He has overseen a large increase in Poland’s military spending since Russia’s full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine in 2022.
Government spokesman Adam Szlapka said Donald Tusk and Kosiniak-Kamysz were told about the threat early on Sunday morning. He said officials receive threats from time to time, but that this one was exceptionally concerning.
Szlapka said Donald Tusk remained in Warsaw and was carrying out his duties as usual. Officials gave no details of any change to the security arrangements for either man, and no arrests had been announced by Sunday afternoon.
Warning follows deadly school attacks
The warning came days after two knife attacks at schools in the Masovia region around Warsaw. On Oct. 7, a 19-year-old attacked people at a vocational school in the town of Ostroleka, injuring several of them. On Oct. 8, a 15-year-old former pupil killed a 37-year-old employee at a primary school in the village of Leszczydol-Nowiny, police said. The school’s head teacher restrained the attacker.
After the attacks, Tusk called an emergency meeting of ministers and the national police chief and ordered police patrols to visit every school in the country at least once a day.
Polish officials have also warned for months of possible sabotage and other hybrid attacks by Russia, which they accuse of trying to weaken support for Ukraine. Moscow denies this. In November 2025, an explosion damaged the railway line between Warsaw and Lublin, a route used to carry aid to Ukraine. Tusk said the saboteurs were two Ukrainian citizens working for Russian intelligence who had fled to Belarus.
Earlier threats and a past assassination plot
Donald Tusk, 69, has led the Civic Platform party for most of the past two decades. He was prime minister from 2007 to 2014 and president of the European Council from 2014 to 2019, and he returned to power at the head of a pro-European coalition in December 2023.
He has been the target of threats before. In October 2025, a man threw a petrol bomb at the entrance of the Civic Platform office in Warsaw. The device did not ignite and no one was hurt. Police said the suspect had been charged earlier that year with threatening to kill Tusk.
In November 2012, during Tusk’s first term, Polish prosecutors arrested a university researcher in Krakow who they said planned to detonate about four tons of explosives in a car outside parliament while the president, the prime minister and lawmakers were inside. Prosecutors said the man held nationalist and antisemitic views.
Poland has also seen deadly violence against politicians. In January 2019, Gdansk Mayor Pawel Adamowicz was stabbed on stage during a charity concert and died the next day.
