WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A hospital spokesman says a military prosecutor who shot himself to protect his job's independence has been placed in a psychiatric clinic.
The prosecutor, Col. Mikolaj Przybyl invited reporters to his office in the western city of Poznan on Monday to defend the work his office has done and to reject planned reforms.
Midway through it, he asked to be left alone, then shot himself in the head, sustaining a wound to his face.
The head of a psychiatric clinic in the central city of Bydgoszcz, Jan Wilk, told The Associated Press on Thursday the patient had been brought to the clinic.
The shooting exposed a long-simmering conflict between the country’s civilian prosecutor general, Andrzej Seremet, and Poland’s chief military prosecutor, Gen. Krzysztof Parulski.
