Among his personal effects were memos regarding preparation of a terrorist attack, which included a list of French shopping centers and supermarkets in Poland.
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Lodz court spokesman Pawel Urbaniak said earlier on Monday that the man’s identity was being investigated as he had “very basic” documents on him. Polsat News said the man had arrived in Poland a couple of weeks ago after being expelled from Sweden and had lived in Switzerland for several years previously.
However, a Krakow prosecutor told journalists there were no grounds for charging the man with terrorism and said not enough explosive material had been detected to cause an explosion. Polish authorities have placed the man on two-month detention while ABW agents determine whether the man was acting alone or as part of a criminal group.
People attending Pope Francis’s meetings with world youth in Poland should expect detailed security checks before entering, police said Friday.
Poland’s interior minister, Mariusz Blaszczak, said on Monday that border guards have denied entry to about 200 people since July 4, when Poland introduced temporary border controls due to the world youth meeting and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation summit in Warsaw on July 8-9.
KRAKOW, Poland (AP) Buses of Polish security forces moved into Krakow on Tuesday as thousands of young people gathered ahead of the arrival of Pope Francis for World Youth Day, a major gathering of Catholics from around the world.
Scheduled to depart from Rome’s Fiumicino airport at 2 p.m., Francis will come to St. Peter’s Basilica at 8:45 a.m., where he will meet members of the Peter Pan association at the tomb of St. John Paul II (in the basilica’s St. Sebastian Chapel) to join them in a moment of prayer.
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Blaszczak added that Border Guards have denied entry to some 200 people since July 4, when Poland introduced temporary border controls due to the world youth meeting and the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation summit that was held in Warsaw July 8-9.
