Listening equipment found in the room where the Polish government was to meet

WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Listening devices were found in a room where the Polish prime minister Donald Tusk was scheduled to meet with his cabinet on Tuesday, an official said.

The ministers were meeting in Katowice, a city in southwestern Poland, where Tusk was participating in an economic conference.

Jacek Dobrzyński, spokesman for the head of Poland’s secret services, said a routine security check revealed equipment that could be used for recording or eavesdropping.

He wrote on social media on Tuesday morning that “the State Protection Service, in cooperation with the Internal Security Agency, detected and dismantled devices that could be used for espionage in the room where the Council of Ministers meeting is taking place today in Katowice.”

“The services are carrying out further activities on this matter,” he added.

The Cabinet traditionally holds a weekly meeting in Warsaw, but exceptionally holds it in Katowice due to the European Economic Congress taking place there, at which the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, gave a speech.

Tusk and government ministers went by train to Katowice on Tuesday morning.