Poland’s police chief Jaroslaw Szymczyk was injured after he by accident fired a grenade launcher gifted by Ukraine, information company Reuters reported citing Polish media. The explosion came about on Wednesday and broken a ceiling within the constructing whereas Jaroslaw Szymczyk and two others suffered accidents.
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Earlier, Poland’s inside ministry didn’t affirm media experiences that the explosion was attributable to the grenade launcher whereas the Polish police stated it was investigating “an act consisting of unintentionally inflicting a violent launch of vitality that threatened the life or well being of many individuals or property.”
Jaroslaw Szymczyk stated, “Once I was transferring the used grenade launchers, which have been items from the Ukrainians, there was an explosion” including that he was transferring the grenade launchers into an upright place.
The police chief had acquired two grenade launchers as presents throughout his visits to the police and the state emergency service of Ukraine, experiences urged including that the officers had assured the delegation that the launchers weren’t loaded. The delegation took them again to Warsaw earlier than leaving them within the again room of Jaroslaw Szymczyk’s workplace, it was reported.
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Following the incident, Jaroslaw Szymczyk was broadly criticised because the Polish media reported that commentators stated that army tools shouldn’t have been taken into Poland from exterior the European Union (EU) or taken into an workplace.
Tomasz Siemoniak, former defence minister and present deputy chief of the principle opposition get together in Poland wrote on Twitter that the incident is “indefensible”.
“Heads should roll of these chargeable for this case and endangering life. And the commander has misplaced his capability to steer the police,” Tomasz Siemoniak stated.