(Notes from Poland) Poland has detained a man who was allegedly planning a terrorist attack on a Christmas market as an act of support for Islamic State.
Jacek Dobrzyński, the spokesman for the security services, announced on Tuesday morning that the suspect is a student at the Catholic University of Lublin in eastern Poland whom he named only as Mateusz W., in accordance with Polish privacy law.
He is 19 years old and Polish, and comes from a devoutly Catholic family, said Dobrzyński, quoted by news website Onet. However, he had become “deeply infatuated with Islam” and had “fallen in love with terrorism,” seeking to establish contact with Islamic State.
