On the occasion of the 14th anniversary of the Smolensk disaster, the Law and Justice planned 2 Holy Masses and a memorial march, which will end with a speech by Jarosław Kaczyński. The celebrations began at 8 p.m. in the Seminary Church of the presumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Joseph the Bridegroom at Krakowskie Przedmieście in Warsaw. The Memorial Appeal will then be held before the Presidential Palace at 8.41 pm.
Another mass for the victims of the Smolensk disaster was planned at 19 in the Archatedal Basilica of St John the Baptist Martyrdom.
At the end of the celebrations, at 8 p.m., there will be a March of Memory from the Architectural Basilica in front of the Presidential Palace. The celebrations at 9 p.m. will culminate with the speech of the president of the Law and Justice.
14th anniversary of the Smolensk disaster – plans by Andrzej Duda
President Andrzej Duda, who is presently in Krakow, is besides planning his celebrations. The president will lay a wreath before the grave of Lech and Maria Kaczyński on Wawel. The president will then go to Warsaw to visit the Vilnius Temple of Divine Providence. It is there that the last president of Poland in exile Ryszard Kaczorowski is buried. The presidential plan takes into account the worship of all victims of the disaster, so later Andrzej Duda will go to Powązki, where most of the victims of the tragedy of April 10 are buried.
The president will besides lay a wreath at the monument of Lech Kaczyński, and will besides take part in the Holy Mass in the Archatedal Basilica of St.
14th anniversary of the Smolensk disaster – plans of Marshals of the Sejm and the Senate
Powązkowski Cemetery will be visited by the Speakers of the Sejm and the Senate. The wreaths will besides be deposited in the Sejm, where there are plaques dedicated to the memory of Lech Kaczyński, Maciej Plażyński and another MPs and senators who died 14 years ago. Margaret Kidawa-Błońska will besides lay a wreath under the plaque commemorating the Deputy Marshal of the legislature Krystyna Bochenek.
The National Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz will besides take part in the celebrations on Powązki. Interestingly, nothing is known yet about the participation of Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
14th anniversary of the Smolensk disaster – a shocking TVN report
On Tuesday, April 9, TVN24 aired a study entitled "The Force of Investigation", whose main protagonist was Krzysztof Schwartz, Head of Investigative squad No. 1, appointed to analyse the causes of the Smolensk disaster. Schwartz told reporters about how Macerewicz's squad bought and destroyed a duplicate aircraft for the 1 that fell in Smolensk. According to the D.A., the experiments of the ex- MON chief's investigative subcommittee were not only costly, but they besides led to nothing and could not prove anything.
Krzysztof Schwartz besides said that Macerewicz did not have a shadow of evidence of an detonation on the Tupola board, and explosives were never found. Finally, the prosecutor regretted his engagement in the crash investigation.
