Polish PM asks for report on three Spanish divers

Mateusz Morawiecki, the Polish prime minister, has asked the country's security services to prepare a comprehensive report on three Spanish divers who were rescued from the sea near the port of Gdansk over the weekend.

The Spaniards, according to Poland's police, were rescued by the Polish Maritime Search and Rescue Services in the Baltic Sea on Saturday night.

Some media reported that the divers were close to Naftoport, a strategic petroleum reloading infrastructure, prompting speculation that the three posed a threat to Poland’s energy infrastructure.

The Spaniards, however, said they were looking for amber in the area.

"I have commissioned a very comprehensive report on the matter," the prime minister said in the north-central city of Torun on Thursday.

"Of course, it's possible that they were dangerous people," Morawiecki continued. "But it may turn out that they are not dangerous, and what they said was true."

Stanisław Żaryn, the acting deputy of the Minister Coordinator of Special Services, said later in the day that the activities conducted by the Spaniards "had no connection with the threats to the state security."

"Their activities posed no threats to the critical infrastructure, either," Żaryn wrote on Twitter.

"The services have at their disposal full knowledge regarding the three Spaniards and circumstances surrounding the event," Żaryn continued.

According to him, the rescued Spaniards had not committed any crime on the territory of Poland and added that a detailed report would be presented to the prime minister as soon as it was ready.

The prime minister stressed that Poland's critical infrastructure is well-protected. "We have increased the protection of our strategic infrastructure, for example the liquefied natural gas terminal in Świnoujście and the Baltic Pipe gas pipeline," he said.