Poland detains third suspect over arson attack on Czech factory

WARSAW, April 8 (Reuters) - ‌Poland has ​detained ​a third suspect following an arson attack on an optics and ‌drones factory in the Czech Republic ⁠last month, a special services spokesman said on ‌Wednesday.

A previously unknown pro-Palestinian ‌activist group has said it carried out the March 20 attack on the ​LPP company's factory in Pardubice, east of Prague, which caused millions of dollars ⁠in damage.

Poland, Slovakia and the Czech Republic have previously ​said they detained several suspects of Polish, Czech, Egyptian and U.S. nationality.

"Officers ​of the Internal Security Agency ‌detained in Zielona Gora another 23-year-old Pole, who is accused ⁠of assisting in the intentional arson of a production hall in Pardubice, Czech Republic," the ⁠official, Jacek Dobrzynski, wrote in a post on X.

"The ​Warsaw Regional Court applied a preventive measure against the man in the form of temporary arrest ‌for three months. The case is developing."

In 2023, LPP Holding announced ‌plans to cooperate with Israeli defence ⁠group Elbit Systems, but ‌it says ​those plans were not carried out.

(Reporting by Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk; Editing by Kate ‌Mayberry)

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