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The family of Poland’s former president Lech Kaczynski, who died in a 2010 plane crash, has agreed to his exhumation as part of a new inquiry into the accident, his twin brother said on Saturday. “I have agreed with the prosecutor’s decision on the exhumations. The remains of my brother… will be among the first, if not the first, exhumation,” said Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who heads the ruling populist Law and Justice (PiS) party, in an interview with Onet news website.
The presidential plane went down in Smolensk in western Russia in April 2010, killing all 96 people on board, in an incident the PiS believes was nothing short of an assassination. The party, which came to power a year ago, has denounced as “scandalous” an inquiry into the crash led by the previous liberal government—headed at the time by Donald Tusk, who is now the EU president. “The bodies, once they were brought back to Poland, were not examined,†said Kaczynski.