Man in TNT threat

26th March 2010

Citizens in Poznan were forced to evacuate their flats this week after police received a phone call from a man threatening to blow up his apartment.

Piotr W., 55, was initially unwilling to talk with anyone and a stalemate quickly arose. After a while however, officers began to negotiate with him and when the door to his first floor flat eventually opened, he was wrestled to the floor.

Once inside the apartment, located in the busy Wilda district, officers found two blocks of TNT (approximately 400 grams).

“If the bomb had been detonated, his flat would definitely not be there now,” claims one officer who was at the scene. “I don’t know what would have happened to the actual ...