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President’s body arrives home (LARGE PICTURE GALLERY)
thenews.pl ^ | April 11, 2010

Posted on 04/11/2010 9:51:13 AM PDT by lizol

Polish President’s body arrives home

11.04.2010 17:06

The body of the late President Lech Kaczynski arrived at Warsaw’s military airport, Sunday afternoon, and the coffin driven through streets lined with thousands of Poles wanting to pay their respects.

The coffin was removed from the CASA military aircraft which had taken it from Smolensk where the president’s plane crashed on Saturday. Archbishop Jozef Kowalczyk and Metropolitan of Warsaw Archbishop Kazimierz Nycz were waiting on the tarmac to say mass.

At 15.24 CET the coffin, draped in the Polish flag, was placed on the airport’s apron and then visited and kissed by Lech Kaczynski’s tearful daughter, Marta, the late president’s twin brother Jaroslaw, acting head of state Bronislaw Komorowski, Prime Minister Donald Tusk and many other dignitaries and family who had gathered at the airport.

The coffin was placed in a funeral car and driven slowly through the streets of Warsaw to the chapel at the Presidential Palace. There the coffin will be open to public view, although not today, spokesman Jacek Sasin told TVP Info.

“For sure this will not happen on Sunday,” he said.

Sasin added that the date for President Kaczynski’s funeral has yet to be settled and is up to members of his family to decide.

Prime Minister Tusk has described the plane crash on Saturday in Smolensk, western Russia, as killing 96, as “a tragedy that the modern world has not seen before”.


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: kaczynski; lechkaczynski; poland; presidentkaczynski
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To: Revolting cat!

Have no fear Putin is in charge of the investigation. Of course he has experience as a former KGB agent and knows how to eliminate folks. This stinks.


41 posted on 04/11/2010 12:36:39 PM PDT by kenmcg
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To: lizol

Thank you. Our prayers continue...


42 posted on 04/11/2010 12:38:36 PM PDT by Brad’s Gramma (Here's a thought!! Donate to the website you are on RIGHT NOW!!)
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To: lizol

Heartbreaking. Prayers for all.


43 posted on 04/11/2010 12:48:54 PM PDT by FES0844
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To: lizol
Thank you for the pictures
44 posted on 04/11/2010 1:29:34 PM PDT by SoCalPol (Reagan Republican for Palin 2012)
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To: lizol
That is a beautiful crucifix.


45 posted on 04/12/2010 10:39:27 AM PDT by ELS (Vivat Benedictus XVI!)
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To: dfwgator

Wonder how this is going to affect Bidens visit ????


46 posted on 03/23/2022 6:30:46 PM PDT by caww ( )
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To: lizol

April 11, 2010?????


47 posted on 03/23/2022 6:32:11 PM PDT by caww ( )
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To: caww

I’m more convinced than ever now Putin did it.


48 posted on 03/23/2022 7:20:39 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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I’m not following the ‘case’ - fruitless as far as I’m concerned. By the time the truth is known , if it ever is, the world will have movd on.


49 posted on 03/23/2022 7:39:28 PM PDT by caww ( )
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