(AFP) Poland’s special services said Monday they had detained a Lebanese citizen with suspected ties to the Islamic State group who allegedly planned to launch attacks in the country.
The man, whose identity was not made public, was detained on April 16 after being deemed “a real threat to Polish internal security and to our country’s citizens,” according to Stanislaw Zaryn, spokesman for Poland’s special services.
The suspect “was planning to set up a network in Poland and elsewhere in the EU that would carry out terror attacks in Western European countries,” Zaryn said in a statement.
He had “family ties to terrorists belonging to the so-called Islamic State who died in battle against the coalition forces in Syria and Iraq,” the statement added.
