Lawyer: conflict possible motive for attacks on Polish supermarkets

The attacks on Polish supermarkets in 2020 and last year seem to have their origin in a conflict between two different parties “who operate such shops and do not give each other the light in the eyes”. That is what the counsel for a suspect in two of the attacks said at the court in Alkmaar on Monday.

During a preparatory session in the criminal case against her client Antonio N. (27) the lawyer drew on information from the Criminal Intelligence Team (TCI), the ‘secret service’ of the investigation, which ended up in the criminal file and which would be supported by DNA traces found on parts of explosives.

It is the first time that a possible background to the attacks has been mentioned in court. Previously, this was limited to the suspicion of the Public Prosecution Service that everything pointed to the work of an organization. The owners of the affected stores also said they were in the dark about the motives.

The lawyer stated about N. that “of course he was involved in very nasty facts. But both his own statements and telephone messages showed that he was only asked to take people from A to B. He was recruited as a young boy. for something in which there seems to be much greater interests in the background”.