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On the next month of the Smolensk disaster of April 10, 2010, on Friday, a delegation of PiS politicians including the party’s president, Jarosław Kaczyński, laid wreaths at the monuments of President Lech Kaczyński and the victims of the 2010 Smolensk Tragedy.
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After the morning service celebrated in the Warsaw seminary church, politicians walked in front of the monument to President Lech Kaczyński at Piłsudski Square, and then to the monument to the Victims of the Smolensk Tragedy. Wreaths were laid at the monuments.
In addition to Kaczyński, the ceremony was attended by former Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki and former head of the Ministry of National Defense Antoni Macierewicz and other PiS politicians. The president was accompanied by private security. Security services were also present on site, including police negotiators.
Activists who oppose the politicization of the tragedy also appeared at the ceremony. They brought banners with slogans: “The Smolensk lie”, “Nothing is eternal at Piłsudski Square”, “PiS is Russia’s success in Poland”. The events at Piłsudski Square were also accompanied by shouts: “Give back the wreath”, “You ordered us to land”, “Take away these stairs of the Smolensk lie”.
When PiS politicians left the place commemorating the victims of the tragedy, activists laid their wreath. Every month on the anniversary of the Smolensk disaster, they lay a wreath in front of the monument on Piłsudski Square with the following text: “In memory of the 95 victims of Lech Kaczyński, who, ignoring all procedures, ordered the pilots to land in Smolensk in extremely difficult conditions. Rest in peace. Polish nation.”
After the ceremony, the PiS delegation, together with president Jarosław Kaczyński, returned to the Monument to the Victims of the Smolensk Tragedy. After a short exchange of words between politicians and a group of activists, the Law and Justice delegation left the memorial site again. The incident was controlled by police officers present on site.
On April 10, 2010, 96 people died in the crash of the Tu-154M plane near Smolensk, including President Lech Kaczyński and his wife Maria, the highest commanders of the Polish Army and the last president of the Republic of Poland in exile, Ryszard Kaczorowski. The Polish delegation was heading to the ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre. (PAP)
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