UPDATE - Warsaw police detained a man, Wednesday morning, carrying a hand-grenade outside the Presidential Palace.
Earlier it was reported that the man - as yet unnamed – was carrying an object that “resembled a grenade”, said police. But after examining the object it turned out to be a real hand grenade.
Police say that the 60 year-old man produced a disarmed F1 defensive grenade and threatened protestors who were standing opposite the front of the Presidential Palace.
The incident comes in the wake of a 71-year-old man arrested yesterday for throwing excrement over the plaque commemorating the Smolensk victims.
He has been named as Eugeniusz P. (surname withheld) and is being charged with defamation of a national monument and could face up to five years in prison. The man, who lives near the eastern city of Lublin, is undergoing a psychiatric examination.
The two incidents may be connected with anger over the unveiling of the Smolensk plaque on the wall of the presidential residence last Thursday. Authorities had hoped that the plaque would cool tempers over their earlier attempt to move a cross outside the palace in memory of the 96 who died in the Smolensk plane crash of April 10. (pg/mg)
Source: PAP/IAR
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