A souvenir that Jaroslaw Szymczyk, the head of the organization received during his visit to Ukraine, exploded at the headquarters of the Polish Police Headquarters in Warsaw, the Polish Ministry of the Interior announced on Thursday.
The explosion took place on Wednesday morning in a room adjacent to the police chief's office, they said. As they added, Szymczyk received the gift from one of the heads of the local Ukrainian authorities during his working visit to Ukraine on December 11-12.
The police chief suffered minor injuries and has been in hospital for observation since Wednesday. One of the employees of the institution also suffered minor injuries that did not require hospitalization, the announcement states.
The case is being investigated by the competent Polish services and the prosecutor's office, Poland has requested an explanation from the Ukrainian side.
On Thursday morning, Mariusz Ciarka, the spokesperson of the police headquarters, confirmed to the PAP news agency the previous media reports that the ceiling of the guard room in the building was damaged as a result of the explosion.
Source: MTI
Photo: AFP/Artur Widak
2022 plus:
If I want to give my supporter or friend a funny gift, I don't hide an explosive device in the box, but say a clown that jumps out on a spring when opened. How the Ukrainian party explains this surprise package will obviously be considered interesting, if they can explain it at all. One can only hope that they don't want to sew this up the neck of the Russians - as has been the case several times - because the world would laugh at such an antics.
