Man with angle grinder destroyed shop in Łódź, police arrived after 36 minutes
An aggressive man in military uniform entered a plant shop in central Łódź and declared that he had orders to kill civilians. Police arrived at the scene more than half an hour after the initial call.
Incident in central Łódź
According to polskieradio24.pl, a man in military uniform entered a plant shop in central Łódź, demanding access to the toilet. After being granted access, he told a member of staff that "management had ordered him to kill several civilians". The woman immediately informed the shop owner, Dominika, who locked the man inside the shop and called the police on 112 at 16:02.
The locked-in man began behaving aggressively. He struck reinforced glass with furniture and then smashed windows with an angle grinder. The shop owner waited for police to arrive, but officers did not appear at the scene. At 16:08 she called the emergency number again. Help still did not come. Eventually a member of staff went to the police station, which was 160 metres away, where the report was formally accepted at 16:13. The man was detained at 16:38 — 36 minutes after the first phone call.
Police explanation
Kamila Sowińska, press officer of the Municipal Police Command in Łódź, stated that police received the call from 112 at 16:08. After the member of staff provided additional information at the police station at 16:13, officers from the city-centre station departed for the scene at 16:32. Sowińska emphasised that the intervention lasted 19 minutes from the last report and was in accordance with operational procedures.
Source: Google News PL — Crime (pl)