Ryszard C., the taxi driver who shot dead a political assistant and stabbed another at the Law and Justice party headquarters in Lodz last week, plotted the crime for months, claim press reports.

After examining Ryszard C.’s laptop and analyzing key words that he typed into search engines, police have managed to establish that the 62-year-old killer collected data on politicians from the four largest political parties and searched the web for weapons and bomb construction manuals.

Ryszard C. followed online the activities of President Bronislaw Komorowski, leader of the Democratic Left Alliance Grzegorz Napieralski and Law and Justice leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski.

“Before Kaczynski’s presidential election campaign rally in Warsaw [in the summer] Ryszard C. downloaded a map of the square where it was held,” a police officer who analyzed the killer’s laptop revealed to the Gazeta Wyborcza daily.

In total, an obsessed Ryszard C. gathered information about twenty politicians and looked for weapons, paralyzing gas and tasers on the web.

“He also visited web sites with instructions on how to make a home-made bomb,” adds the policeman.

Ryszard C. was also interested in disguise – he looked for a fake beard, moustache and ways to cover up vehicle number plates.

The man also checked Polish Airlines LOT web site, which suggests that he might have planned to escape Poland after the crime.

On 19 October, Ryszard C. entered the Law and Justice headquarters in the central city of Lodz and shot Marek Rosiak, MEP Janusz Wojciechowski’s assistant and injured Pawel Kowalski, who was hospitalized. (mg/pg)