Exhumation of victims of Smolensk crash revealed 8 bodies in the coffin of Polish Admiral
Body bags, a bucket, and a yellow polyethylene packet with the remains of eight other people were discovered in the coffin with the remains of Admiral Andrzej Karweta, the Polish naval commander-in-chief who died on April 2010 in the Tu-145 plane crash near Smolensk, Polskie Radio reported.
According to the report, the shocking details related to the exhumation of Polish Admiral Karweta’s remains were announced at a press conference on August 8 by his widow Mariola Karweta. The exhumation was done on June 26, after which the coffin was delivered to the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Warsaw.
“They opened the coffin, I saw my husband’s uniform. Under the uniform there were clothes, not his – too small, a significantly smaller size, green, I think they belonged to a representative of the ground forces who was thinner and shorter than my husband. Under the clothes there were bags, one bag was the kind which is usually used to transfer the bodies of catastrophe and killing victims, only twisted and bound up with a white nylon string, used to hang laundry. Alongside there were two big dark garbage bags. And a transparent yellow packet. This is how my husband was buried, but that’s not all,” Mariola Karweta recalled.
She emphasized that the garbage bags contained the remains of eight people, including her husband, and two people who could not be identified. Furthermore, the remains of her husband were identified in four other coffins. She added that she is afraid to organize a funeral, because Admiral Karweta’s remains can be found in multiple coffins.
According to Mariola Karweta, the investigations began with computerized tomography, thanks to which an additional upper limb was discovered. “The right hand belonged to someone significantly shorter and thinner than my husband. An extra lower jaw. My son accompanied me when his father’s body, and as it turned out, not only his father’s, was on the section table,” the widow said.
She admitted that she has major complaints against the government, because it did not take care to ensure a decent burial: “I have nightmares every night since I heard the words ‘They must be buried in one grave, it wouldn’t be a problem”. I see yellow trash cans with the red and white flag. They carry the bags I saw in my husband’s coffin. They take them somewhere far away, to the dump, for everyone to forget about them,” Mariola Karweta said during the press conference.
“I have major complaints against the government, which did not care about the safety of a person who cared about its safety,” Karweta said.
“Everything in me screams when I hear that the government has been inspected, when I hear that someone feels sorry for the helpless trees which are being cut down. And what about us? Don’t you feel sorry for us?” Mariola Karweta asked.
The publication mentions that at the moment of his death on April 10, 2010, Andrzej Karweta was 52 years of age. He was buried near to Gdansk, where the admiral who commanded the Polish Navy had been living since 2007.