Uncensored photographs of the Smolensk plane crash victims have been attached to the latest report published on Monday by the special subcommittee led by PiS MP Antoni Macierewicz. "What Mr Kaczyński and Mr Macierewicz have done is unforgivable - desecrating the memory of the victims only to envenom, incite, and open a new chapter of the political civil war," Civic Platform chairman Donald Tusk said during the party national convention on Wednesday.
On Monday (April 11), Antoni Macierewicz presented yet another report by the Smolensk subcommittee, which yet again upheld theories about an explosions inside the plane ahead of the crash. The document included uncensored photos of some of the victims of the air disaster - of former president Lech Kaczyński among others. Macierewicz issued a statement on Tuesday evening, in which he apologised for the "unacceptable mistake". Poland's defence minister has ordered the Military Counterintelligence Service to investigate the issue.
Tusk: the shame will stay with you forever
Chairman of Civic Platform and former prime minister Donald Tusk commented on this matter on Wednesday during his party's national convention.
"In recent days we've been witnessesing something unacceptable, something dramatically evil. This is a return to Smolensk and the assassination rhetoric, only to cause Polish civil war to break out again with extreme power. Now, when Russia is a threat not only to Ukraine, but also to Poland and Europe," he said.
He added that he would rather not mention "Mr Macierewicz's and Mr Kaczyński's theories". "What Mr Kaczyński and Mr Macierewicz have done is unforgivable - eploiting the fellings of Poles, especially the families of those who died in the crash, desecrating the memory of the victims only to envenom, incite, and open a new chapter of the political civil war," Tusk stressed.
"Misters Kaczyński, Morawiecki, Macierewicz, today Polish men and women fell ashamed for what you have done in the last day or so, this shame will stay with you forever," he addressed the ruling party top members.
Tusk: anyone who tries to divide us is carrying out Putin's plan
Tusk also argued that nothing worse could have happened in this situation than "responding to war and war danger close to our borders with slogans inciting civil war within our borders".
"The most important, indispensible and vital response of all Poles - including the government - to the war, to this deadly danger looming from the east at Poland, Ukraine and the whole of Europe, should be fundamental unity and peace right here, within our borders," he stressed.
"We have the right to argue, that's how democracy works. We may have different opinions on various issues, but in no way should we expose Poland, Polish men and women, to the risk of hard political conflict, which increasingly resembles a political civil war," Civic Platform chief said.
"On this occasion, I'd like to once again urge those in charge: quit these dangerous and idiotic ideas to drive a wedge between the Polish people. Stop serving Poland political civil war, because this is the worst response to the real war which is currently taking place in Ukraine. Anyone who incites conflict, anyone trying to drive a wedge between us, between Poland and the West and the rest of Europe, is in fact carrying out Putin's plan," Donald Tusk underscored.
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