WARSAW, May 24 (Reuters) – Poland is facing a series of false alarms about fires or other threats, including one \u200bon Saturday at a flat in Gdansk belonging \u200cto a member of President Karol Nawrocki’s family, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said.<\/p>\n
Tusk held a sitting of the Government Security \u200bCenter on Sunday morning after the incident, which \u200bhe said was part of a recent series \u2060of such false calls.<\/p>\n
Sign up here.<\/a><\/p>\n The interior ministry said overnight \u200bthat an emergency notification centre received a report of \u200ba fire at an apartment. Services were sent to the location and firefighters decided to forcefully enter the flat belonging to \u200ba member of Nawrocki’s family.<\/p>\n “The apartment was inspected and \u200bfound no fire hazard or injured persons, as the premises were \u200cempty. \u2060Due to the situation, the police are conducting an investigation to identify the perpetrators,” an interior ministry spokesperson said.<\/p>\n Tusk called the incident “another telephone provocation” and said \u200bthat while firefighters \u200bhad responded \u2060correctly, procedures for identifying such false alarms need to be reviewed and perpetrators have \u200bto be identified as soon as possible.<\/p>\n “The \u200bprovocateurs’ \u2060actions are aimed at national security. At all of us. We will use all available methods to identify \u2060and \u200bapprehend the saboteurs, regardless of where \u200bthey come from or who directs them,” he wrote on social media \u200bplatform X.<\/p>\n Reporting by Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk; Editing by Christian Schmollinger<\/p>\n Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles., opens new tab<\/a><\/p>\n