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Some leaders found their present a lot later.
“The prime minister was stunned and instantly handed it over to airport police so it might be positioned in a safe protected and the matter was dealt with in accordance with related procedures,” an official instructed AFP Thursday (Jul 9).
De Wever’s safety staff additionally dealt with the revolvers given to EU chiefs based mostly in Brussels, Ursula von der Leyen and Antonio Costa, with all the safety and protocol-related complications such an effort brings.
Von der Leyen “expressed her thanks” to Erdogan for the present, her spokesman stated, including it will be decommissioned and donated to a navy museum.
The revolver offered to Polish President Karol Nawrocki additionally arrived safely, however with the mandatory precautions and a earlier incident nonetheless contemporary in everybody’s minds.
In December 2022, Poland’s police chief introduced again an anti-tank grenade launcher from Ukraine that he had acquired as a present.
The system exploded in his workplace, barely injuring him and inflicting intensive injury to the police headquarters in Warsaw.
This time, “it’s sure that nobody goes to fireplace it,” an aide to Nawrocki instructed a neighborhood radio station.
