WARSAW, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Polish police negotiators persuaded a man to come down from a monument in a central Warsaw square, a spokesperson said, putting an end to an incident that had seen part of the capital cordoned off amid reports of a bomb threat.
Police spokesperson Sylwester Marczak told reporters officers had seen the man climbing onto the Smolensk monument at around 0800 GMT.
“They approached him but then there was a very worrying statement which indicated that there was a very real danger for people on the square,” he said, adding that police were now examining his backpack using an x-ray to make sure it was safe.
quoted by the state-run PAP news agency, did not confirm the reports that the man was threatening to blow himself up.
Footage posted on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, had showed a man standing on top of the Smolensk monument, which commemorates the victims of a 2010 air disaster that killed 96 people including President Lech Kaczynski and his wife, Maria.
A guest at the Sofitel hotel, which faces the square, said they had been told to only leave the building by the back exit.
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