Poland’s national prosecutor’s office said on Wednesday that it charged three Poles and three Belarusians for allegedly committing acts of sabotage “on behalf of foreign intelligence services”.
Prosecutors did not specify which country was responsible for the group’s activities.
But the office’s spokesman Przemyslaw Nowak told AFP that one of the suspects, Stepan K., had previously been accused of carrying out acts of sabotage on behalf of Russian intelligence.
The individuals were charged with “organising and carrying out acts of sabotage on the territory of the Republic of Poland, arms trafficking, drug trafficking, and other criminal offenses”, prosecutors said in a statement.
The statement added that the goal of the foreign agents was to “cause social unrest and create a sense of helplessness among state authorities by carrying out diversionary and sabotage actions”.
The group allegedly participated in two arson attacks on warehouses in Gdansk and Marki, a suburb of Warsaw, commissioned by foreign intelligence services.
The individuals are also suspected of trafficking weapons and drugs from Ukraine to Poland, according to Nowak.
“Since the outbreak of the full-scale war in Ukraine, we have undoubtedly noticed an upward trend in such cases,” he said, speaking of foreign agent-related investigations.
Last month, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk told reporters that Poland had so far detained 32 people suspected of “cooperating with Russian intelligence services”.
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