Treasure hunters claim to have ‘irrefutable proof’ they found Nazi gold train in Poland
Defence Minister Tomasz Siemoniak says military experts in chemical weapons and explosives are inspecting the site.
Two men appeared on Polish TV on Friday saying they are the finders of a Nazi train said to be laden with gold – a claim that came as the Polish military inspected the alleged site in southwestern Poland.
Identifying themselves as Andreas Richter and Piotr Koper, the men appeared on TVP.INFO. Richter confirmed he had found the train.
Authorities in the southwestern city of Walbrzych said last month that two men had contacted them through lawyers claiming they had found an armoured train that possibly contains valuables and weapons. The report sparked a gold rush around Walbrzych, where tales have circulated since the second world war that the Nazis hid a train full of gold from the Soviet Army in early 1945.
“As the finders of a second world war armoured train, we, Andreas Richter and Piotr Koper, declare that we have legally informed state authorities about the find and have precisely indicated the location in the presence of Walbrzych authorities and the police,” Koper said, reading a statement on TV with Richter sitting at his side. “We have irrefutable proof of its existence.”
Their knowledge is based on information from witnesses and on their own research, carried out with their own equipment, Koper said in his statement.
They claimed that a leak to the media was behind the public knowledge of their find.