Poland has initiated a procedure for the arrest of Russian dispatchers associated with the Tu-154 disaster near Smolensk, in which President Lech Kaczynski died. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the press secretary of the Polish Prosecutor General's Office Ewa Bialik.
According to her, the Prosecutor General's Office filed a motion to arrest three dispatchers who worked at the Smolensk-Severny airport in 2010. Bialik stressed that the Russians are accused of deliberately provoking a plane crash, which resulted in the death of many people. It is noted that if the court satisfies the petition, the dispatchers will be put on the international wanted list with a subsequent demand for extradition to Poland.
Earlier, the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova said that the re-investigation of the disaster in which the President of Poland Lech Kaczynski was killed has turned into an endless fantasy process. She advised everyone to just read the transcript of the conversations between the pilots of the Polish “plane number 1”, and it is better to listen to it.
On April 10, 2010, a Polish delegation led by President Lech Kaczynski flew on a Tu-154M government plane to Katyn. The plane crashed near the Smolensk-Severny airfield. All 96 people on board were killed. The Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) came to the conclusion that the disaster happened because of the actions of the crew, who decided to land the liner in adverse weather conditions.
