FM's wife in bomb scare

11th December 2009

A technical fault in the car of the wife of the foreign minister triggered an explosion of worldwide media speculation with vivid speculation of Russian assassination plots and work of evil-minded mafia men.

Appearing across the globe, the stories started after Radek Sikorski’s wife, the award-winning writer Anne Applebaum, called the fire brigade after her car’s engine began to emit smoke and flames as she drove home through the Warsaw suburbs.

When the police arrived, officers were startled to hear that the car, which was by then resembling a charred lump, belonged to the wife of a leading minister and so called their superiors, who called their superiors, who called BOR, the Polish ...