Poland accuses Russian dispatchers of causing the Smolensk Crash
The Polish Prosecutor General's Office accused Russian dispatchers, as well as an unidentified third party of deliberately causing events that lead to the Polish Presidential plane crash near Smolensk.
Deputy Prosecutor General Marek Poshchenek said that Polish authorities will send the Russian Federation a request for legal assistance to interrogate the air traffic controllers.
Warsaw also accused an unnamed third person of driving to the accident site, presumably to interfere. That person was present at the control tower of the Smolensk North Airport on the morning of April 10, 2010 where the late Polish president’s Tu-154M aircraft was supposed to land.
According to Poshchenek, new charges became possible thanks to the analysis of two thousand volumes of materials collected by the investigation, as well as the exhumed remains of the victims of this tragedy.
The prosecutor's office also reported that the exhumation revealed the substitution of two bodies. "In five other coffins, fragments of other people's bodies were found," Yevropeiska Pravda newspaper writes.
The infamous Smolensk Crash involved a plane with a Polish delegation flying to commemorative events in Katyn. It crashed near Smolensk on April 10, 2010 in conditions of dense fog. All 96 people on board perished, including Polish President Lech Kaczyński and his wife.