The latest suspect, a 48-year-old Warsaw lawyer, was detained on Sunday during another investigation into widely publicized reports targeting top state officials, including the President of Poland.
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“Another arrest for false alarms and impersonation. This time in a different case than the previous one. It is a well-known Warsaw lawyer,” Interior Minister Marcin Kierwiński wrote on the social network “X” on Sunday.
According to the Warsaw police, officers from the Criminal Terror and Homicide Department, acting together with prosecutors, found illegally held items in the mentioned lawyer’s apartment in Warsaw and in his car, including laptops, mobile phones, service IDs, legal documents belonging to third parties, various weapons, ammunition, and 10 artillery shells.
The 48-year-old suspect faces seven charges, including illegal possession of weapons and impersonation of former high-ranking state officials to send false warnings to state institutions about alleged assassination attempts on the president and the foreign minister.
It is reported that in one case the suspect attached live ammunition to threatening letters.
The court granted a request to impose three months of preventive detention on the lawyer, who faces up to eight years in prison.
Earlier, five more individuals targeting well-known conservative figures were detained, as confirmed by M. Kierwiński on Saturday. Three of these suspects have already been placed in preventive detention.
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A wave of false reports has swept Poland since mid-May. Between May 10 and 15 alone, emergency services responded to 12 separate false reports of alleged bombs or direct threats to life. These attacks were primarily aimed at conservative journalists, right-wing politicians, and their families.
On May 24, emergency services and firefighters rushed to the home of President Karol Nawrocki’s mother after receiving a false report of a fire in the apartment.
Rescuers also went to the private residence of the Law and Justice party (PiS) leader Jarosław Kaczyński due to a false bomb threat.
The editor-in-chief of the right-wing TV channel “TV Republika,” Tomasz Sakiewicz, also became a target when law enforcement raided his home following a false call about an alleged immediate danger to a minor.
The Ministry of the Interior and Administration has established a special working group in response to the situation, consisting of cybercrime experts, the National Research Institute (NASK), and the Internal Security Agency (ABW).
