Poland partly to blame for plane crash

The Polish government presents its final report on the causes of the plane crash in Smolensk today, Friday. Interior Minister Jerzy Miller has already announced in advance that the report lays part of the blame on the Polish pilot. In the eyes of the liberal daily Mladá fronta Dnes, with this admission the government is "throwing a bomb into its own ranks. For many this comes as a big surprise. After all, some Poles didn't want to admit this could be true. ... Prime Minister Donald Tusk chose to take an accommodating stance right from the beginning, as did President Medvedev and Prime Minister Putin. ... This concession has provoked harsh criticism from the opposition PiS party led by Jarosław Kaczyński, the brother of the former president who died in the accident. Even before the release of the government's final report the party announced its own investigation. So the 'Causa Smolensk' still hasn't come to an end yet."

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