The new Polish government has liquidated the subcommittee investigating the 2011 Smolensk disaster, in which Polish President Lech Kaczynski died.
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Rzeczpospolita writes that the subcommittee is being liquidated, and its members are obliged until next Monday, December 18, 2023, to return all documentation, real estate and equipment that were used for work.
All powers and powers of attorney of members of the subcommission to carry out activities related to its work have been abolished. In the near future, a special group will be created that will analyze all aspects of the activities of the liquidated subcommittee, said Janusz Seimei, a spokesman for the Polish Ministry of Defense.
The Ministry of Defense recalled that many specialists reported errors, shortcomings and manipulations on the part of the commission. The current leadership of the military department calls the reports of the head of the body, Antoni Macierewicz, nothing less than “a lie on which 31 million zlotys (7 million euros) were spent over eight years.”
Deputy Defense Minister Cezary Tomczyk said that the “strange investigation that has not been completed” will not continue. At the same time, in the context of the Smolensk disaster, the report of the commission of the ex-head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Poland Jerzy Miller, which completed its investigation in 2011, will be considered official. They came to the conclusion that the tragedy occurred due to mistakes by the crew of the Polish plane.
In a plane crash on April 10, 2010, a Polish government plane with 96 people on board crashed near the Smolensk-Severny military airfield. The plane crash killed the presidential spouses Lech and Maria Kaczynski, the entire military command of the Polish army, and a significant part of the Polish political, religious and social elite.
After the Law and Justice party came to power in Poland in 2015, the new government canceled the report of its predecessors and resumed the investigation in February 2016.
Since then, the bodies of all crash victims have been exhumed, and all black box records and elements of the crashed aircraft have been re-examined for explosives.
PiS, whose shadow leader is the brother of the deceased president, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, has repeatedly blamed the disaster on the Russians, hinting at the possible involvement of the Kremlin in the disaster.
Source: Racurs
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