Warsaw decides on Smolensk memorial site
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John Beauchamp
25.02.2015 14:29
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Warsaw decides on Smolensk memorial site
As the fifth anniversary approaches of the crash of the presidential plane in Smolensk, the authorities of Warsaw have formally announced a site for a future monument commemorating the victims of the disaster of 10 April, 2010.
Smolensk plane wreck, April 2010: photo - Włodzmierz Pac/PR
Meanwhile, as Elżbieta Krajewska reports, some representatives of the Polish political scene are saying that the Smolensk anniversary is being used for political purposes, and – in yet another part of the drama – Warsaw has formally requested Moscow to explain why the wreck of the plane has not yet been handed over to Poland.
Barbara Nowacka, daughter of the Democratic Left Alliance’s Izabela Jaruga Nowacka, who died in the crash which killed 97 people, told Polish Radio that “It’s the fifth anniversary which is already symbolic, and even if this is somewhere on the election calendar the result will be long term, the monument will be built and it will commemorate the victims; so to me it is more important for it to appear and if there is an alliance towards this end, then it doesn’t matter to me who or when, now or in four months”.