NATO should help solve Smoleńsk crash case – Defense Minister

Poland's Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz said during the NATO summit in Brussels, that the alliance should get involved in helping Poland clarify all the issues regarding the Smoleńsk plane crash that killed 96 people, including Polish President Lech Kaczyński, twin brother of the leader of the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, Jarosław. “It seems that it is high time for NATO to join forces in clarifying this matter,” Macierewicz said, adding that he expects “full cooperation, especially in passing on all information that both NATO and individual countries have in relation to this case.” Official investigations conducted that the crash was an accident caused by a series of errors from both Polish and Russian sides, but PiS has challenged it. According to Macierewicz and Law and Justice politicians, the crash was not an accident but a political assasination. And has made it a key issue in the last campaign to solve the case and bring the wreckage of the plane, which still is in Russia, back to Poland.