Exploding gift sends Polish police chief to hospital after Ukraine visit

Exploding gift sends Polish police chief to hospital after Ukraine visit
Poland’s police chief Jaroslaw Szymczyk was hospitalised with minor accidents on Wednesday after a present that he had acquired in Ukraine out of the blue exploded, in response to a authorities assertion.

“Yesterday at 7:50 a.m., an explosion occurred in a room adjacent to the office of the Police Chief,” Poland’s Interior Ministry mentioned on Thursday.

“During the Police Chief’s working visit to Ukraine on December 11-12 this year, where he met with the heads of the Ukrainian Police and Emergency Situations Service, he received some gifts, one of which exploded.”
Police Commander in Chief, Inspector General of Polish Police, Jaroslaw Szymczyk
Police Commander in Chief, Inspector General of Polish Police, Jaroslaw Szymczyk, throughout the celebration of the National Police Day. On Wednesday, July 27, 2022. (Artur Widak/NurPhoto/Shutterstoc)

The assertion alleged the reward got here from one of many heads of Ukrainian companies.

Poland has requested Ukraine to make clear what occurred and a case was “immediately opened” with the prosecutor’s workplace and corresponding companies, it mentioned.

CNN has reached out to Kyiv regional police and nationwide police for remark however haven’t but acquired a response.

A general view of a building of the Polish Police Headquarters
A basic view of a constructing of the Polish Police Headquarters, the place, in response to Poland’s inside ministry, prime cop was injured by an exploding official reward, in Warsaw, Poland December 15, 2022. REUTERS/Kuba Stezycki (REUTERS/Kuba Stezycki)

Szymczyk has been hospitalised for statement.

A member of workers from the Police Headquarters additionally suffered minor accidents, however didn’t want hospitalisation, in response to the assertion.

The incident follows a slew of suspicious mail despatched to Ukrainian embassies in Europe, pushing Ukraine to place all of its abroad diplomatic stations beneath heightened safety.

Kyiv’s embassies in Hungary, the Netherlands, Poland, Croatia, Italy, Austria, in addition to the consulates basic in Naples and Krakow, have acquired suspicious packages, in response to Oleh Nikolenko, spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.

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