The 2010 Katyń Families Association
13.11.2012

Polish Military Prosecutor's Office in Poznan has initiated a case against prosecutors from the Warsaw Military Prosecutor's Office for obstruction of criminal proceedings.

The Polish Military Prosecutor's Office in Poznan has initiated a case on violations committed in the investigation of the Tu-154 Polish presidential plane's crash, which occurred near Smolensk in 2010, Slawomir Schewe, a spokesperson of the Poznan Prosecutor's Office said.

 

The case was opened in response to an application submitted to the office by relatives of the deceased, who believe that the investigators from the Warsaw Prosecutor's Office were not present at the forensic examination in Russia, though they had the opportunity to do so. At a later point, they allegedly hindered the impartial investigation. The Poznan prosecutors will now be looking into the Warsaw prosecutors' actions.

 

Previously, the prosecutors announced that mistakes were made in the way the bodies were marked and identified. The remains of four victims of the crash had to be exhumed and then re-buried. A further two bodies were exhumed on Monday and are currently being examined.

 

source: RAPSI

fot. PAP/Leszek Szymański