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Some sirens sound in Poland’s disputed memorial


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2022 Apr 10, 19:16, Warsaw
Poland's deputy prime minister and key politician, Jarosław Kaczynski, center, pays respect to his twin, the late President Lech Kaczynski, on the 12th anniversary of a plane crash in Russia that killed the president and 95 other prominent Poles, at the monument to the victims in Warsaw, Poland, on Sunday, April 10, 2022. At a time of Russia's war on Ukraine, Poland's government has revived its controversial allegations that the crash was the Kremlin's assassination plan. (AP Photo)

Sirens went off in some Polish cities early Sunday to mark the anniversary of the 2010 presidential plane crash, despite widespread protests that their sound would be unnecessary trauma to scores of refugees from the war in Ukraine.

The sirens were intended to add to the significance and the plaintive character of observances honoring late President Lech Kaczynski, the first lady and 94 other prominent Poles killed 12 years ago in a plane accident in Russia.

The sirens were heard at 0641 GMT, the exact time the presidential plane crashed on April 10, 2010, near Smolensk, Russia.

Kaczynski was the twin of Jaroslaw Kaczynski who is the leader of the main ruling Law and Justice party and Poland’s key politician. The brothers founded the party in 2001.

Wreaths and flowers were laid in Warsaw and across the country at the monuments and graves to the victims of the national tragedy. Jaroslaw Kaczynski and party figures were at the monuments to the late president and to all the victims, in downtown Warsaw.


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