Military transport error
Polish anti-tank mines mistakenly end up in furniture warehouses
Highly dangerous military goods wandered through Poland by train for weeks. The soldiers responsible are facing punishment and a general has been deposed.
The Polish army overlooked 240 anti-tank mines and accidentally ended up in a furniture company warehouse. Four military personnel responsible are therefore facing several years in prison, as the PAP news agency reported, citing the responsible public prosecutor’s office. A Polish subsidiary of the furniture company confirmed to the agency that employees discovered a shipment of military goods in July 2024. This was picked up by the military police on the same day.
Although the error happened six months ago, the Polish public only found out about it on Thursday through media reports on the news portals “Onet.pl” and “Wirtualna Polska”. Defense Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz then fired the head of the army’s internal inspection on the same day and proposed a successor on Friday. The ministry has not yet given a reason for the personnel change. According to media reports, the military tried to cover up the mistake and keep it secret from his superiors.
Wrong route by train through Poland
“Onet.pl” and “Wirtualna Polska” had revealed that the anti-tank mines were to be unloaded from a train near Stettin (Szczecin in Polish) in the summer of 2024, along with a large amount of other military equipment. Apparently the soldiers left some of the dangerous cargo behind due to carelessness.
The anti-tank mines initially remained missing and only appeared in the furniture company’s warehouse weeks later after a wrong journey by train through the interior of Poland. According to Onet.pl, they were enough to destroy two skyscrapers.
Announcement from the Polish Ministry of Defense about the change at the top of the Army Inspectorate, Polish online report from the TV news channel TVN24, Polish online report from the news portal Onet.pl, Polish
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Source: Stern
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