A pair of incendiary devices that started fires in British and German warehouses were dress rehearsals for a Russian plot to attack a transatlantic flight, according to the Polish authorities.
Disguised as electric massage machines from Lithuania, the packages allegedly contained a highly flammable “magnesium-based substance” that would have burnt fiercely enough to bring down an aeroplane.
Four people have been arrested in connection with the incidents in July. Another man, who is suspected to have posted the parcels from Lithuania and tried to conceal his identity by giving false return addresses, was arrested in September, officials in Warsaw said.
Pawel Szota, the head of Poland’s foreign intelligence agency, pointed the finger at Moscow. “I’m not sure the political leaders of Russia are aware of