2018-04-02 23:12 update: 2018-09-26, 17:41
Partial report on Smolensk crash on April 10 - Law and Justice leader PAP/Jakub Kamiński
There will only be a partial report on the Smolensk catastrophe on the 8th anniversary of the April 10, 2010 crash of the Polish presidential plane in Russia, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of the Law and Justice (PiS) has told the Gazeta Polska daily.
"We know that there will be no final report for the 8th anniversary of the tragedy. Instead, there will be a partial report which, as I assume, will show in detail what has been unquestionably determined," Kaczynski said in an interview for the daily.
The PiS leader added that the report will also include questions to which the Antoni Macierewicz subcommittee will be trying to find answers. The now former defence minister is heading a government subcommittee set up in 2016 to reinvestigate the 2010 air crash.
According to Kaczynski, results of research by American experts, who several weeks ago inspected a Tu-154 plane, similar to the one that crashed in Smolensk, may be "extremely important or even of breakthrough significance." "However, we still have to wait for them. These are extremely precise and technologically advanced analyses requiring time. This research is to take a year or so, or even longer," said the PiS chairman.
On April 10, 2010, President Lech Kaczynski, his wife, the last President of Poland in exile Ryszard Kaczorowski and dozens of senior government officials and military commanders were killed in the air disaster near Smolensk, western Russia. The delegation was on its way to Katyn to attend events marking the 70th anniversary of the 1940 Katyn Massacre, during which around 22,000 Polish POWs were murdered at the hands of the Soviets.
Excerpts from the interview with Jaroslaw Kaczynski will be published in the Tuesday edition of Gazeta Polska. (PAP)
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