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Some leaders found their reward a lot later.
“The prime minister was shocked 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 group 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 reward, her spokesman mentioned, including it might be decommissioned and donated to a navy museum.
The revolver offered to Polish President Karol Nawrocki additionally arrived safely, however with the required 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 in depth harm to the police headquarters in Warsaw.
This time, “it’s sure that nobody goes to fireside it,” an aide to Nawrocki instructed an area radio station.
