Poland marked the Friday the 10th anniversary of a controversial plane crash in Russia where Polish top leaders were killed.
Poland’s ruling nationalists marked the Friday the 10th anniversary of a controversial plane crash in Russia, where several Polish politicians were killed. On the anniversary was criticism of Russia’s role in the tragedy reinforced.
In Warsaw laid the political leaders of the wreaths at a monument to commemorate president Lech Kaczynski, who died in the plane crash ten years ago. At the ceremony were police officers wearing face masks as protection against the coronavirus pandemic.
President mr Andrzej Duda, who is allied with the ruling Law and Retfærdighedsparti, PiS, which was founded by Kaczynski and tvillingbroren Jaroslaw, regretted that coronakrisen prevented a more extensive marking of the anniversary.
the Crash occurred in dense fog near Smolensk in western Russia. It is the worst plane catastrophe in Poland in the postwar period, and the enhanced political tensions and suspicion between the poles and russians.
Many poles – including the Duda – do not believe that the crash was due to pilot error, as it officially has been concluded.
– After 10 years it is difficult to say anything about whether the case will ever be solved. We lack the basic evidence. Flyvraget is in Russia, and it also applies to the black boxes, said the Polish president, after having visited the Kaczynskis tomb in the Wawel cathedral.
Russian havarieksperter says that human error committed by the flight crew caused the crash.
But the disputed plane crash still has great political importance – also in the relationship between Poland’s nationalist government and the opposition.
Centrumpartiet Borgerplatformen, who ruled Poland in the eight years up to 2015 under the leadership of Donald Tusk, will become of the current government accused of having prevented a full investigation of the crash.
Tusk, who is the former president of the EUROPEAN Commission, is today a leader of a pan-european party. He accuses the Polish government in order to incite hatred toward his followers, and to create ever larger gaps in Poland’s political life.
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