Polish police negotiators persuaded a man to come down from a monument in a central Warsaw square, a spokesperson said, putting an end to an incident that had seen part of the capital cordoned off amid reports of a bomb threat.
Private broadcaster Polsat News reported that at around 1130 GMT the man surrendered to police. Its footage showed him climbing down from the monument, taking off his jacket and walking away with his hands in the air.
"They approached him but then there was a very worrying statement which indicated that there was a very real danger for people on the square," he said, adding that police were now examining his backpack using an x-ray to make sure it was safe.A police officer at the scene had told a Reuters reporter: "No entrance, there is a bomb," but Marczak. quoted by the state-run PAP news agency, did not confirm the reports that the man was threatening to blow himself up.
PAP said several hundred officers were involved in an operation around the square. A Reuters video journalist saw armed officers arriving nearby.
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