- Title: EU's Tusk arrives to testify in case related to Smolensk crash
- Date: 3rd August 2017
- Summary: WARSAW, POLAND (‪AUGUST 3, 2017) (REUTERS)‬ EXTERIOR COUNTRY'S PROSECUTOR OFFICE BOARD, READING (Polish) "Country's Prosecutor Office" PRESIDENT OF THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL, DONALD TUSK, ARRIVING TO WARSAW SPOKESMAN OF COUNTRY'S PROSECUTOR OFFICE SPEAKING AT NEWS CONFERENCE HANDS (SOUNDBITE) (Polish) SPOKESMAN OF COUNTRY'S PROSECUTOR OFFICE, ARKADIUSZ JARASZEK, SAYING: "Donald Tusk's hearing is conducted within the investigation concerning failure to fulfill the obligations by public officials." PEOPLE GATHERED AT THE FRONT OF PROSECUTOR OFFICE, CHANTING "Donald Tusk", WAVING EU FLAGS (SOUNDBITE) (Polish) OPPOSITION CIVIC PLATFORM PARTY'S MP, CEZARY TOMCZYK, SAYING: "Poland is ruled by Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who is a quasi-dictator, who as the ruling party leader is above the prime minister, president and especially justice minister who try to take-over the courts. After his (Kaczynski's) words in parliament when he said that all opposition politicians are murderers who killed his brother we have no doubts in which direction the present power is going to and what they want to achieve. Today we see one of the steps that lead to destroying opposition in Poland." MAN WAVING EU FLAG AT THE FRONT OF PROSECUTOR OFFICE PEOPLE STANDING AT THE FRONT OF PROSECUTOR OFFICE, BANNER, READING (Polish) "We welcome the President of Europe"
- Embargoed: 17th August 2017 12:00
- Keywords: European Council President Donald Tusk military prosecutor arrival testimony witness secret service officials
- Location: WARSAW, POLAND
- City: WARSAW, POLAND
- Country: Poland
- Topics: Crime/Law/Justice,Judicial Process/Court Cases/Court Decisions
- Reuters ID: LVA0016SLRLTZ
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- Story Text: European Council President Donald Tusk has arrived on Thursday (August 3) at the Polish Prosecutor Office to be questioned by Polish investigators as a witness in an investigation into the 2010 plane crash that killed then President Lech Kaczynski.
Dozens of supporters greeted him as he arrived at the prosecutor's office on Thursday morning.
Tusk was the Polish prime minister at the time of the crash, which occurred in Russia and killed 96 people when it came down short of Smolensk airport in Russia on 10 April 2010.
In Poland prosecutors said they want to determine why Polish authorities did not undertake the autopsies when they were performed Russians and later proven to be inaccurate. Exhumations have revealed that body parts got mixed up and buried in the wrong graves.
The leader of the ruling Law and Justice party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, is the former president's surviving twin brother. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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