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  2 minute readDecember 17, 20222:27 PM UTCLast Updated ago

Exploding grenade launcher a gift from Ukraine, Polish police chief says

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  Poland's top cop injured by exploding present, says ministry
  A general view of a building of the Polish Police Headquarters, where,
  according to Poland's interior ministry, top cop was injured by an
  exploding official gift, in Warsaw, Poland December 15, 2022.
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  WARSAW, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Poland's top policeman said that an
  explosion in his office was caused by a grenade launcher, telling
  private broadcaster RMF FM that he had received two of the weapons as a
  gift from Ukraine.

  Poland's interior ministry and [13]prosecutor's office had not
  previously confirmed media reports that the explosion on Wednesday, at
  police headquarters in Warsaw, was caused by a grenade launcher.

  Prosecutors said they were investigating the blast, which resulted in
  Police Commander in Chief Jaroslaw Szymczyk being taken to hospital.

  "When I was moving the used grenade launchers, which were gifts from
  the Ukrainians, there was an explosion," Szymczyk told RMF FM.

  He said he was moving the launchers into an upright position at the
  time.

  RMF cited a source from a Polish delegation that visited Ukraine as
  saying Szymczyk had received two launchers from officials as presents
  during visits to the police and the State Emergency Service of Ukraine.

  The officials had assured the Polish delegation that the launchers were
  not loaded, and the delegation took them back to Warsaw by car before
  leaving them in the back room of Szymczyk's office, the source told
  RMF.

  Reuters was unable to independently confirm this version of events.
  Ukrainian police and the State Emergency Service of Ukraine did not
  immediately respond to requests for comment. A Polish police spokesman
  could not immediately be reached for comment.

  Szymczyk has been criticised over the incident, with commentators with
  backgrounds in the security services cited by Polish media as saying
  that military equipment should not have been taken into Poland from
  outside the European Union or taken into an office.
  Reporting by Alan Charlish and Dan Peleschuk in Kyiv; Editing by Nick
  Macfie
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