Police in Warsaw are seeking a hoaxer who rang repeatedly early Monday morning claiming that a bomb had been planted near the controversial Smolensk cross outside the Presidential Palace.

Police say a 44 year-old man is currently helping them with their enquiries.

 “He was completely drunk,” Maciej Karczynski from the Warsaw police HQ said after the man's arrest

"We received the first phone call at 02.39 CET and after that we received another to or three calls," a police spokeswoman said earlier.

Police searched the area but found no explosive devices and concurred that the calls were a hoax.

If found the hoax caller could face up to eight years in jail.

The hoax bomb threats come after excrement was thrown at the plaque to the Smolensk plane victims last Tuesday and a man arrested on Wednesday brandishing what turned out to be a disarmed grenade outside the Presidential Palace. (pg)

source: PAP