On the 14th anniversary of the Smolensk disaster, PiS politicians with Jarosław Kaczyński at the head of the event, placed the wreaths in front of a memorial commemorating the victims of 10 April 2010, which is located in Piłsudski Square in Warsaw. At 1 point there was a sharp exchange between Mark Suski and Anita Czerwińska, and the countermanifestants who wanted to lay their wreath with a controversial plaque.
The celebrations organized by the Law and Justice Office on the anniversary of the Smolensk catastrophe began on Wednesday at 8 p.m. with Mass in the intention of victims of the Smolensk catastrophe in the Seminar Church of the presumption of the NMP and St.
The participants then went to the Presidential Palace, where the Memorial Appeal was read. On the sidewalk in front of the Presidential Palace, where the Warsawers gathered on April 10, 2010, there was a broken cross with white and red candles. Behind him was a image of Maria and Lech Kaczyński.
The appeal began at 8.41 p.m., at this time 14 years ago there was a plane crash with a Polish delegation going to Katyń at the ceremony. During the appeal, the names of the victims of the crash were read and prayer was prayed.
Later, they went to Piłsudski Square, where they laid flowers in front of the monument of Lech Kaczyński and the victims of the disaster, and then prayed. The name of the victims of the crash was displayed on the telebire next to the monument. Participants of the ceremony had white-red flags, banners with the inscription "Smolensk 2010 we remember" and photographs of the victims.
The incidental in front of the monument
According to the media, among others, Onet, in Piłsudski Square There was a sharp exchange of views between PiS politicians Mark Suski and Anita Czerwińska with countermanifestans who wanted to put their wreath with a controversial plaque under the monument.
Members of the Law and Justice @A__Czerwinska and @marexuski trying to halt the laying of a wreath hitting Lech Kaczyński @Fact_enpic.twitter.com/T4icodWtyQ
— Piotr Drabik (@piotrdrabik) April 10, 2024On the wreath of countermanifests there is an inscription: "Memoirs of 95 victims of Lech Kaczyński, who, ignoring all procedures, ordered pilots to land in Smolensk under utmost conditions. remainder in peace. The Nation of Poland". Suski and Czerwinska kept the countermanifests from laying a wreath under the monument.
After the ceremony at Piłsudski Square, after respective minutes of verbal clashes between the countermanifests and Suski and Czerwińska, they placed a wreath with a controversial plaque in front of the monument.
Kontrmanifestans tried to lay a wreath at the Smolensk monument hitting Lech Kaczyński. He's interacting with Marek Suski. The police are in good order, and both groups have been facing each another for 15 minutes. | @virtualnapolskapic.twitter.com/hhqXmxnGC0
— Jakub Bujnik (@JakubBujnik) April 10, 202414 years since the disaster
The ceremony was attended by politicians of the Law and Justice Department and erstwhile members of the government: Jarosław Kaczyński, Mateusz Morawiecki, Mariusz Błaszczak, Jacek Sasin, Piotr Gliński, Maciej Wąsik, Antoni Macierewicz, president of TK Julia Przyłębska, Head of the Chancellery of president Grażyna Ignaczak-Bandych.
The leader of the PiS, together with representatives of the group after the ceremony at Piłsudski Square, went to the Military Cemetery in Powązki, where they paid tribute and laid flowers at the monument to the Smolenska Disaster Victims and lit candles on the graves of the victims.
On 10 April 2010, 96 people were killed in the Tu-154M plane crash close Smolensk, among them: president Lech Kaczyński with his wife Maria, last president of Poland in exile Ryszard Kaczorowski and another figures, including the most crucial commanders of the Polish Army. The Polish delegation went on to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Katyn crime.
PAP
