Jarosław Kaczyński, along with other Law and Justice (PiS) party MPs, lit candles at the graves of the victims of the Smolensk plane crash and at the Monument to the Victims of the 2010 Smolensk Disaster at the Powązki Military Cemetery. They also lit candles at the memorials of other deceased PiS politicians.
Flowers Laid and Candles Lit
The PiS chairman was accompanied by fellow party members, including Mariusz Błaszczak, Zbigniew Ziobro, Michał Wójcik, Elżbieta Witek, Mateusz Morawiecki, Antoni Macierewicz, and Piotr Gliński. Kaczyński also lit a candle at the memorials of Artur Górski, a PiS MP who passed away in 2016, and Andrzej Urbański, who served as Head of the Chancellery of the President of Poland from 2005 to 2006 and died in 2016.
On April 10, 2010, a Tu-154M aircraft crashed near Smolensk as a result of what is believed to have been an attack, killing all 96 people on board. Among the victims were President Lech Kaczyński and his wife Maria Kaczyńska, the last President of Poland in exile Ryszard Kaczorowski, and several high-ranking Polish military commanders. The Polish delegation was en route to attend a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre.