Police chief fired grenade launcher given as gift by Ukraine, Polish media reports

[Kennah]

Source: Reuters in Warsaw via The Guardian

Polish prosecutors are investigating a “violent release of energy” at the national police headquarters amid media reports that the chief of police fired a grenade launcher in his office.

Poland’s interior ministry said on Thursday that Jarosław Szymczyk, the police commander in chief, was injured and taken to hospital when a present he received during a visit to Ukraine exploded at police headquarters in Warsaw.

Polish media reported that the present was a grenade launcher and that Szymczyk himself had accidentally fired it in his office, in what would be a serious breach of safety regulations.

In a statement, published on Thursday, a spokesperson for the prosecutor’s office said it was investigating “an act consisting of unintentionally causing a violent release of energy that threatened the life or health of many people or property”.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/16/poland-police-chief-jaroslaw-szymczyk-fired-grenade-launcher-gift-ukraine

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I still lean into the FSB having a hand in this somehow.

But if it was a grenade launcher, then several questions arise.

Who thought this was a good idea?

Of all people, the Chief of the National Police, should have known upon opening a box with a grenade launcher, the last thought should have been "lemme see if this thing shoots."