Smolensk cover up like how ‘Israelis killed truth 2000 years ago’

photo - PAP/Bartłomiej Zborowski.

“Just as they wanted to kill and falsify the truth about the resurrection of Jesus […] today the same is true about the disaster in Smolensk,” an unnamed monk is reported by the PAP news agency to have said outside the Presidential Palace, Tuesday morning, as supporters of the late president Lech Kaczynski commemorated his and 95 others death in the Smolensk place crash two years ago.

“It appears that just like 2000 years ago, when the leaders of Israel endeavoured to kill the truth, so today's authorities want to kill the truth about Smolensk in a similar way,” the Roman Catholic monk said.

The monk’s remarks came as Jaroslaw Kaczynski, leader of the conservative Law and Justice (PiS) and twin bhrither of the late president, led parallel tributes this morning outside the Presidential Palace to official events in Warsaw, Krakow and Smolensk.

Flowers were laid, and the names of the victims were read out. A minute's silence was also held at 08.41 CET, the exact time of the crash.

The monk’s remarks, drawing parallels between the deaths of both President Lech Kaczynski and Jesus Christ, refer to the conviction held by many nationalist politicians in Poland that the official Polish and Russian investigations into the crash – which concluded that human error was to blame – left out evidence that the deaths were far from being accidental.

Two weeks ago, Jaroslaw Kaczynski declared at a hearing at the European Parliament in Brussels that “the catastrophe looks increasingly like an assassination.”

Lech Kaczynski was a fierce opponent of the Kremlin and supporter of Georgia in its war with Russia in 2008.

Later, Jaroslaw Kaczynski said that his brother left a “tremendous legacy”. Lech Kaczynski stood for a “rational patriotism” and “fought for our country's strong position in the international arena”.

"He realized that in order to realize this plan we need a strong Republic," Kaczynski said. (pg/nh)