Fan of Mass Murderer Breivik Held in Alleged Plot to Kill Polish Leader
Fan of Mass Murderer Breivik Held in Alleged Plot to Kill Polish Leader
By Piotr Skolimowski and Konrad Krasuski on November 20, 2012
A Polish academic authorities say was fascinated with Norwegian mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik and upset over the economy was arrested on suspicion of plotting to kill the nation’s president and blow up Parliament.
An analysis of Breivik’s Internet purchases of explosives before he massacred 77 people last year led to the suspect’s arrest on Nov. 9, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said today. The 45- year-old ‘expert in explosives’ from the Agricultural University in Krakow was trying to set up a group to kill President Bronislaw Komorowski and other officials during a session of Parliament, according to prosecutors.
‘This individual didn’t hide his fascination with Breivik,’ Tusk told journalists after the government met in Warsaw today. ‘We’ve never dealt with such a case before.’
The suspect, whose name wasn’t made public, planned to detonate four tons of explosives from a car parked outside Parliament, Mariusz Krason of the Appellate Prosecutor’s Office in Krakow said at a news conference in Warsaw today. Poland’s Internal Security Agency detained two others in connection with the planned attacks.
While the man wasn’t a member of any political party, ‘he described himself as being nationalistic, xenophobic and anti- Semitic,’ Krason told reporters. A search turned up explosives, remote-controlled detonators, weapons and ammunition, he said. —->Continued