Remains of two other victims discovered in President Lech Kaczyński’s coffin.

Published: June 10, 2017

More shocking news has been reported from the National Prosecution Office. Prosecutor Marek Pasionek revealed that body parts of two other victims of the Smolensk disaster were found in President of Poland Lech Kaczyński’s coffin.

“As a country that is part of NATO, I will not comment on this news,” said emotional Marek Pasionek.

The National Prosecutor’s Office also confirmed the findings reported by wPolityce.pl, that the coffin of Gen. Tadeusz Płoski, who served as the Bishop of Military Ordinate of Poland, contained only half of his body, while the other half was found in the coffin of Gen. Miron Chodakowski’s, who was the Orthodox Ordinary of the Polish Army. Gen. Chodakowski was buried in Supraśl.

“Each time prosecutors discuss such activities with the victim’s families. Such discussions understandably are very difficult, but I was not aware of any instances of incorrect or unprofessional conduct of the prosecutors towards the families. I hope it will continue this way,” Pasionek said during a press conference about ongoing exhumations the Smolensk victims.

He emphasized that his decision to limit information passed on to the general public was made last year, admitting that, in his mind, it was the right decision.

Pasionek added that the decision regarding exhumations was “very difficult for him and for the prosecutors who investigated the circumstanced of the Smolensk crash.”

Pasionek said that the Prosecution is not in possession of a written complex opinion regarding the currently conducted autopsies.

“Regardless of individual autopsies, we will require experts to provide a comprehensive opinion on all the victims, what caused their death and how it occurred,” Pasionek stated at the press conference.

“Experts, who previously requested four months to complete their work, have now reapplied to extend that period, quoting the complexity of the case. The Prosecution agreed. In the meantime, two additional experts joined the team,” said Pasionek, adding, “I have been assured that first opinions will reach the prosecutors’ desk in June.”

Pasionek stated that further several dozen of body parts are still being examined. The Prosecution wants to be one hundred percent sure as to their identity. Pasionek confirmed that genetic analyses of four recent exhumations is still outstanding, but that two cases of remains being swapped are confirmed and nine cases of remains being found with others’ coffins have been identified.

It has also been confirmed that six more exhumations are planned for June, with the works being suspended over summer.

Immediately after the crash the investigation into the Smolensk disaster was handled by the Military Prosecution, which was subsequently shut down. At the beginning of April 2016, the investigation was taken over by the National Public Prosecutor’s Office, which decided in June 2016 that it was necessary to conduct exhumations of 83 victims of the crash. Between 2011 and 2012 nine exhumations were conducted, and four cremations took place. Errors within the Russian medical documentation, a lack of photographic evidence, as well as Russia’s lacks of consent for their experts to be interviewed, were quoted as justification for the exhumations.

The exhumations began in November 2016, with President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria Kaczyńska’s bodies as first being exhumed. So far, twenty seven bodies have been exhumed. Recently, the Prosecution officially confirmed that remains of other victims have been found in the coffins of Gen. Bronisław Kwiatkowski and Gen. Włodzimierz Potasiński. wPolityce.pl informed that the remains of Bishop Tadeusz Płoski were found in the coffin of Orthodox Archbishop, Miron Chodakowski.

Source: wpolityce.pl
Translation: JD
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