The City @ 10.04.2010 13:58
Mourning Toruń
The President of Poland, Lech Kaczyński, was killed with his wife and a large group of co-workers in plane accident. The Mayor of Toruń, Michał Zaleski, sends his condolences to the families of the fatal crash victims.
This is what Reuters Agency said about the accident:
Poland’s President Lech Kaczynski, its central bank head and the country’s military chief were among 96 people killed when their plane crashed in thick fog on its approach to a Russian airport Saturday.
The president’s wife and several other high-ranking government officials were also aboard the Tupolev Tu-154 that plunged into a forest about two km (1.3 miles) from the airport in the western Russian city of Smolensk.
“The political consequences will be long-term and possibly will change the entire future landscape of Polish politics,” said Jacek Wasilewski, professor at the Higher School of Social Psychology in Warsaw.
Polish government spokesman Pawel Gras said the country would hold elections after the death of Kaczynski, who was 60 and had been president since 2005.
“In line with the constitution, we will have to hold an early presidential poll,” Gras said. “For now, the speaker of the lower house of parliament, Bronislaw Komorowski, is automatically the acting president.”
Russian television showed the smouldering fuselage and fragments of the plane scattered in a forest. A Reuters reporter saw a broken wing some distance from the rest of the aircraft. Russia’s Emergencies Ministry said 96 people were aboard the government plane, including 88 members of a Polish delegation en route to commemorate Poles killed in mass murders in the town of Katyn under orders from Soviet leader Josef Stalin in 1940. Earlier reports had said 132 people were aboard. Smolensk regional governor Sergei Antufyev and Polish state news agency PAP said there were no survivors.
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