It is claimed that traces of explosives were found in the plane wreckage of Polish president Lech Kaczynski - 2010 plane crash.

A controversial article in one of Poland’s leading dailies claiming that investigators found traces of explosives in the wreck of the plane that crashed in 2010, killing the Polish president and 95 others, has triggered a shake-up in the right-leaning press. A string of journalists were sacked after military prosecutors said the paper’s claims were untrue.

In an Oct. 30, 2012 article, the Rzeczpospolita broadsheet, which has regularly criticized the Donald Tusk government, claimed that investigators had found traces of TNT and nitroglycerin on the remains of the presidential plane, which crashed in Smolensk, Russia. For Jarosław Kaczyński, the leader of the Law and Justice (PiS) party, this was evidence that his twin brother, President Lech Kaczyński, had died as the result of a bomb plot, rather than in an ordinary plane crash.

PiS has been voicing such theories for months. Soon after the article was published, Jarosław Kaczyński said the theory that the president had been assassinated should be treated from then on as a fact. But he did not name who he believed stood behind the plot.

[link to www.warsawvoice.pl]

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