The most important people in the country received information about the massive threat related to sabotage on the Warsaw-Lublin railway line only 2 hours after the incident in Życzyn and near Puławy. Niezalezna.pl confirmed this officially by speaking with the duty officer at the Government Security Center (RCB).
Let us recall - on Sunday at 7:39 a.m., a train driver in the Życzyn area, near the PKP Mika station, reported a serious technical problem due to - as it turned out - the explosion of a section of the tracks. According to the Lublin police, yesterday after 9:00 p.m. officers from Puławy received information about the sudden stop of a passenger train running between Świnoujście and Rzeszów.
The train driver reported the overhead line being torn down and damage to the pantograph, which resulted in three windows in the carriage being broken. At the time of the incident, 475 passengers were on board. No one was injured.
As the duty officer from the Government Security Center (RCB) informed us on Monday after 12:00 p.m., the institution received information about the threat in Życzyn at 9:00 a.m. on Sunday from the Fire Brigade. At 9:30 a.m., RCB forwarded the information to services and government institutions, including the country’s most important officials.
The RCB duty team – as the institution informed us – received information from the police and the Voivodeship Crisis Management Center about the incident near Puławy at 11:00 p.m. on Sunday. That is, 2 hours after the incident, in which the lives of 475 passengers were at risk. “Then at 11:11 p.m., we passed the information to stakeholders, including ministries and services,” the RCB press office told the portal Niezależna.pl.
Alerts? Who needs them anyway?
We asked why RCB did not send alerts or whether it intended to. As representatives of the press office told us, “there were no grounds for sending an alert” in the case of railway incidents. “There was no direct threat to the life or health of citizens,” they stated. It is worth noting that the Government Security Center (RCB) – at least in theory – coordinates the process of crisis prevention and, in the event of a crisis, coordinates the process of minimizing its effects. It carries out – here is a quote – “an assessment of threats to state security – standardizing the perception of threats across individual ministries, thereby increasing the ability of relevant services and public administration bodies to handle difficult situations.” It is supposed to operate at a cross-ministerial level.