Shocking Video: Camera Captures Audio of Polish Prosecutor’s Suicide Attempt
- Posted on January 9, 2012 at 3:55pm by
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WARSAW, Poland (The Blaze/AP) — A military prosecutor in western Poland shot himself in the head Monday after defending the work of his office and rejecting planned reforms, officials and media said Monday.
Col. Mikolaj Przybyl survived the shooting that happened inside his office in the city of Poznan, minutes after he read a statement to reporters and then asked them to briefly get out.
Col. Mikolaj Przybyl asks for a few moments.
Przybyl is a deputy head of the prosecutor’s office in Poznan and the head of a local department investigating organized crime in the army. Moments before his attempted suicide, Przybyl had defended his investigation into a 2010 plane crash that killed the President Lech Kaczynski, his wife and much of the country’s top political leaders, according to USA Today.
A broadcast by TVN24 station, whose camera was left rolling after reporters left, shows Przybyl walking across his office and out of sight before a gunshot can be heard.
Watch the footage of the press conference from The Telegraph, which includes the sound of a gun being cocked offscreen and the subsequent shot:
Here’s the EuroNews report explaining the situation:
Hospital director Leslaw Lenartowicz said Przybyl is in stable condition, conscious, and his life is not in danger. Przybyl suffered injuries to the face, he said.
Chief Military Prosecutor, Krzysztof Parulski said that Przybyl was one of the “best prosecutors” and a “man of honor.”
President Bronislaw Komorowski and Justice Minister Jaroslaw Gowin were closely monitoring an investigation into the shooting, their offices said.
Some lawmakers are calling for a special parliament probe into the case, saying that Przybyl’s statement suggests a massive corruption problem in the army.
Moments before shooting himself, Przybyl read a statement to reporters in which he objected to plans by Prosecutor General Andrzej Seremet to put military prosecutors under civilian authority. Seremet said that such a decision was under discussion, but has not been made yet.
Przybyl also said that military prosecutors were proving themselves competent in the many probes that they have opened into organized crime cases inside the army. The probes primarily concern suspicions of corruption in buying equipment for Poland’s troops on missions in Afghanistan and, earlier, in Iraq.
Przybyl denied media suggestions that the military prosecutors broke the law while investigating the 2010 crash of the presidential plane in Russia when President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others were killed. The media have reported that the prosecutors had unlawfully sought billing lists and text message content of mobile phones of some reporters to determine the source of leaks to the media.
Seremet and Parulski denied that prosecutors were eavesdropping on reporters. Seremet defended the investigators’ right to see billing lists — but not the text messages — if vital for a probe. He said a court is to decide whether the prosecutors were entitled to seek reporters’ billing lists.
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Comments (52)
Gonzo
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 1:19pmHow many pollocks does it take to commit suicide? More than one…obviously.
Report Post »Observer500
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 7:40amGonzo you sound like an anti-Polish Nazi bigot.
Report Post »EagleRidge
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 9:23amGonzo,
“Pollock” is an ethnic slur against Polish people.
Would you make similar ethnic slur jokes about Jews/Israelis and call them K*kes?
Report Post »EagleRidge
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 9:51amObserver500,
Judging by all the anti-Polish hate jokes on this topic, Its amazing how successful the Left-wing Hollywood/TV media anti-Polish Bigots have been, in brainwashing the American people to be filled with anti-Polish bigotry and hatred.
Polish people are treated worse by the “American” Hollywood/TV media then America’s old enemies like the Nazi Germans and Japanese.
As you said in your other messages, the Left-wing Hollywood/TV establishment has some sick fetish with Nazi German subhuman intelligence jokes about Polish people despite their claim that they are against Nazi propaganda.
Wasn’t a show like “All in the Family” supposed to be AGAINST ethnic slurs? The left-wing producer of that show, Norman Lear, claimed that the bigot of the show “Archie Bunker” was meant to show the American public that ethnic slurs were wrong. But many Polish Americans have said that show actually promoted anti-Polish Bigotry.
Judging by all the anti-Polish hate jokes on this topic and how Americans on this topic are sounding just like the bigot Archie Bunker on “All in the Family” with their anti-Polish slurs, you can see that show was another example of the TV media’s hate through humor campaign against Polish people.
If Hitler was alive today, he would take delight in seeing all these Nazi subhuman intelligence jokes about Polish people and wonder why the Left-wing in America hated him so much, when the Left-wing in America has the SAME anti-Polis
Report Post »EagleRidge
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 9:54amIf Hitler was alive today, he would take delight in seeing all these Nazi subhuman intelligence jokes about Polish people and wonder why the Left-wing in America hated him so much, when the Left-wing in America has the SAME anti-Polish prejudice as him.
Report Post »LeadNotFollow
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 2:02amSo sad, when someone’s life becomes so unbearable, that they turn to suicide.
Report Post »mauijonny
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 11:56pmDon’t some of you kidz posting here have homework to do?
As for anyone trying to committ suicide; it‘s a horrible shame and is going to a very dark place where humans aren’t supposed to go but, sadly, do. I feel horrible for this man and his family.
Report Post »SilentReader
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 11:56pmIf he was really going to commit suicide you‘d think he’d find a more private place to do it, and not when the cameras were still rolling. This whole thing could be some kind of wierd set-up. If anyone could successfully commit suicide you’d definitely think a military man could.
Desperation leads to desperate measures. And in this case? Well, it leaves alot of questions.
Report Post »Free Khodorkovsky
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 9:12pmIt is interesting that Putin and the new Polish President Komorowski are very friendly to each other. I am sure this is not just a coincidence.
Report Post »mcgrawactor1
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 8:04pmPLEASE NO Polish jokes. This is a sad, sad commentary on something, but it should have nothing to do with bigotry. I can’t WAIT until the truth-tellers get to the bottom of this. Raise your hands if you think that’s gonna happen, with this administration in charge and in the world we live in today?? Go ahead, raise those hands up!!
Report Post »Dr. Joel Fleischman
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 5:09pm^lol
Report Post »Observer500
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 8:18amHow fitting is it that a blogger with a stupid name like “FLAMINGFARTSYNDROME” would make stupid ethnic slurs against Polish people.
This is just proof that the lowest element of society engage in these kind of ethnic slurs.
Report Post »EagleRidge
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 10:11amMcGrawActor,
Unfortunately some people here feel a need to bash Polish people with Nazi subhuman intelligence jokes since they have been brainwashed for decades by Hollywood and the TV networks with all these anti-Polish hate jokes that have been pushed over the TV airwaves.
These same kind of “Polish jokes” were the ones the Nazi guards at death camps told Polish people before they killed them. Hollywood and NBC-TV knew that but didn’t care since the hatred Hollywood and the liberal TV networks (like NBC-TV) have for Polish people is almost identical to the hatred the Nazi Germans had for the Polish people.
Report Post »sndrman
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 7:56pmwas it a polish or russian made gun? you know they’re both very un-reialble unlike American made ask any mexican drug runner or the doj….. and really is it true that poland built a sub with a screen door?
Report Post »Restore the Republic
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 7:50pmSilly Polack… you shoot the ENEMY…
Report Post »Phoneguy
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 7:39pmIf I was a Democrat, this is what I would do also, but I’m smart enough to use a shotgun, this dude is WEAK, I hope this catches on here in the USA with ALL the Democrats, just saying.
Report Post »ModerationIsBest
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 1:48amHow loving you are.
Report Post »flatlandbroncofan
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 7:35pmWhat do you expect from a Pollock. Now he is going to be an uglier Pollock.
Report Post »EagleRidge
Posted on January 11, 2012 at 9:32amFLATLANDBRONCOFAN,
Why all the hatred against Polish people?
“Pollock”/“Polack” is an ethnic slur against Polish people.
Do you call Italians “W*ps”, Jews “K*kes”? Blacks “N*ggers” etc?
You sound like a Nazi Bigot.
Report Post »mrawfull
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 6:46pmWhat else can you expect? Poland is still run by communists.
Report Post »schroeder123
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 6:46pmI feel all left winged democrats should take this very seriously. If you truly want to make a statement about your cause you will do as this gentleman has. No Gutz No Glory…
Report Post »heyjim55
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 5:56pmThis is not funny at least I don’t think it is I have no idea how old some of the commenters here are but judging from their remarks, certainly not a adult. There is a power struggle in Poland as some of the old guard want to go back to the old days under Communism, or at least align Poland closer to Russia. The plane crash is highly suspecious some blame Putin some blame security personel in Poland, but there is a video taken by cell phone showing Russian soldiers shooting some of the passengers that survived the crash making sure they were all dead. Russia wants to get the old band back together bring most of it’s former eastern bloc countries back under thier influence and control. The former president of Poland was anti Russia the new one is pro Russia, this guy probably knows to much and shot himself either to protect his family or is guilty of something .
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 6:55pmWithout question, Putin wiped out the whole Polish government in one single, masterful blow. I still don’t get how Kaczynski, of all people, trusted that sinister, back-stabbing commie. I would have declined the invitation, period.
Report Post »John Kettlewell
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 5:40pmdid you see that pool of blood? neither did I. It wasn’t in the head either. The assumptions are that he was shot, and that it was self-inflicted. He was a Colonel; was that an honorary rank? I don’t see how he would have failed.
I can smell the BS from Europe to Florida, it‘s carried by the warm air from the CO2 that follows Gore’s private plane.
Report Post »Diego Roswell
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 5:19pmLame shock video nonsense for “hits” on an online news site to muster advertising dollars. The Blaze is disappointing.
Report Post »RugDog
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 5:26pmThey have bills to pay you pinhead.
Report Post »NeoFan
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 5:47pmActually when you figure that at least 80% of the posters on the Blaze are being payed by Soros then you can see that its a pretty good plan to use the Sorosbots to fund the Glenn Beck empire.
Report Post »deeberj
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 12:52pmNeofan – you are just talking crazy.
Report Post »mtnclimberjim
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 5:16pmweird…..I feel kind of violated after watching that. Dude has quite the sense of humor though, see how he was smiling?
Report Post »meisterman41
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 5:13pmLet us not forget the plane crash here! Isn’t that the “Real Story”?
Report Post »whatthecrazy
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 5:11pmOuch
Report Post »Guitar Master
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 4:57pmzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
THE REPORTER’S Opinion
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A lot of really sick people on this site. Sad, oh so sad! No, not for him, for you, you demented jerks, you.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 5:07pm.
C’mon man. Sick & Demented…….
Did you see the size of that guys head?…………….
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 4:49pm.
Report Post »Next time try a .45 ACP, I mean if your gonna try………..
RepubliCorp
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 5:27pmDid hear the one about the Polish commakaze pilot that flew 60 missions?
Report Post »IhaveOneToo
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 4:35pmHmm. sounds like a solution DC should implement …Juuuust kidding
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 4:43pm.
That was not very P.C. of you……..
I APPROVE 100%………
Report Post »ZABO
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 4:15pmthis loser didn’t want to die. cause if he did he would of put his cheap gun into his mouth or over his heart. and they said he was a tough prosecuter i beg to differ. most tough people no how to use a firearm. and what an embarrasment to the uniform. gun range anyone?
Report Post »junior1971
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 4:36pmWait now! He is so tough that the bullet couln’t penetrate his head!
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 4:43pmIt’s not easy to commit suicide if you are Roman Catholic, and this guy probably is. Only Islamists kill themselves with sick joy, thinking they’ll end up in their lust-filled paradise. I hope he gets help.
Report Post »jungle J
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 5:02pmmost relevant people know how to……
Report Post »lodgerat
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 4:06pmLook how calm his face was and the little smile just before he walked off camera. Amazing..not a very good shot for a military man. It’s really hard to understand how someone could shoot themselves like that.
Report Post »gmoneytx
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 4:04pmI feel for him, if I lived in POland I’d probably do the same thing!
Report Post »JLGunner
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 4:07pmHe missed…
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 4:08pmThere is one thing though, if you listen to the noise closely, there is another sound following the man as well; I have to wonder if someone may have been following him.
Report Post »stogieguy7
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 4:22pmAnd if I lived in your trailer park, so would I.
Report Post »Dr. Joel Fleischman
Posted on January 10, 2012 at 5:11pmTo a liberal, any republican/conservative lives in a trailer park. See post by stogieguy.
Report Post »WAKEUPUSA2012
Posted on January 9, 2012 at 4:00pmThats crazy man…
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