Poland probes suspected assassination attempts on PM, defence minister
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Agence France-Presse Published: 8:18pm, 11 Oct 2026 Poland’s interior ministry said on Sunday that the country’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz may have been targeted by assassination attempts.
A “report about a potential assassination attempt on Prime Minister Donald Tusk, as well as on Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defence Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz, was transmitted to the police via the State Protection Service (SOP)”, interior spokeswoman Karolina Galecka said at a press briefing.
Earlier on Sunday, the ministry ordered authorities to take action “in connection with the information received by (the police) concerning a possible assassination attempt on the prime minister … as well as the deputy prime minister”, who is also defence minister, Galecka wrote on social media.
Members of the police, the SOP and internal security agency were present at the meeting on Sunday.
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