Poland charges 18-year-old with planning Islamist bomb attack — security agency

(Reuters) An 18-year-old Polish man has been arrested and charged with plotting with Islamist militants to bomb a government building, the internal security agency said on Friday.

The young man was arrested in southern Poland in June and had collected information and products to make an explosive belt, Poland’s Internal Security Agency (ABW) said.

It did not name the man and there was no immediate statement from any lawyer representing him.

“The detained citizen of the Republic of Poland was charged with participation in an organised criminal group aimed at committing a terrorist crime,” the ABW’s statement read.

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