<p> An 18-year-old Polish man has been arrested and charged with plotting with Islamist militants to bomb a government building, the internal security agency said on Friday.</p>.<p>The young man was arrested in southern Poland in June and had collected information and products to make an explosive belt, Poland's Internal Security Agency (ABW) said.</p>.<p>It did not name the man and there was no immediate statement from any lawyer representing him.</p>.<p><strong>Read | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/international/world-news-politics/poland-says-eu-should-help-pay-for-border-security-amid-wagner-fears-1232307.html" target="_blank">Poland says EU should help pay for border security amid Wagner fears</a></strong></p>.<p>"The detained citizen of the Republic of Poland was charged with participation in an organised criminal group aimed at committing a terrorist crime," the ABW's statement read.</p>.<p>"The man was also charged with planning, using explosives, to carry out an event threatening the life or health of many people or property of great size."</p>.<p>It said he had converted to Islam at the end of 2022 and had modelled himself on militants such as Osama Bin Laden.</p>.<p>He had made his plans with a group that said it represented Islamic State, the agency added, without giving further details on the members of the group or identifying the target of the planned attack.</p>.<p>He will be held in pre-trial detention for three months, it added.</p>
<p> An 18-year-old Polish man has been arrested and charged with plotting with Islamist militants to bomb a government building, the internal security agency said on Friday.</p>.<p>The young man was arrested in southern Poland in June and had collected information and products to make an explosive belt, Poland's Internal Security Agency (ABW) said.</p>.<p>It did not name the man and there was no immediate statement from any lawyer representing him.</p>.<p><strong>Read | <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/international/world-news-politics/poland-says-eu-should-help-pay-for-border-security-amid-wagner-fears-1232307.html" target="_blank">Poland says EU should help pay for border security amid Wagner fears</a></strong></p>.<p>"The detained citizen of the Republic of Poland was charged with participation in an organised criminal group aimed at committing a terrorist crime," the ABW's statement read.</p>.<p>"The man was also charged with planning, using explosives, to carry out an event threatening the life or health of many people or property of great size."</p>.<p>It said he had converted to Islam at the end of 2022 and had modelled himself on militants such as Osama Bin Laden.</p>.<p>He had made his plans with a group that said it represented Islamic State, the agency added, without giving further details on the members of the group or identifying the target of the planned attack.</p>.<p>He will be held in pre-trial detention for three months, it added.</p>