Stoltenberg, Wałęsa involved in 2 separate accidents involving BOR

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and former President and Solidarity hero Lech Wałęsa, on Thursday, were involved in two separate accidents involving the Government Protection Bureau convoys. In Warsaw, a police car escorting the BOR convoy carrying Stoltenberg from the airport hit a delivery van. Four people, including to police officers were slightly injured. Another accident, in Gdańsk, a BOR limousine carrying Wałęsa was involved in a minor accident, with no one injured. These accidents, follow a stream of car accidents involving Government Protection Bureau convoys, which carried, among others, President Andrzej Duda, PM Beata Szydło, Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz. No one was seriously injured, however, back in March, Polish Ministry of Internal Affairs submitted a bill draft which aims to replace the current Government Protection Bureau (BOR) with the new, more elite State Security Service (Państwowa Służba Ochrony).