Since the disaster there have been strong suspicions that Russian authorities failed to indentify the bodies correctly.
Walentynowicz's presumed body was exhumed on Monday and her son Janusz has now said that the remains are "not the body of my mother".
"That's my opinion, and the doctors' opinions all the results of the examination will come later," he said. "But I know what I saw in Moscow, I know my own mother, and the person I saw today on the autopsy table was certainly not the person I recognised as my mother."
Piotr Walentynowicz, Anna's grandson, was also adamant.
"I do not recognise that body as my grandmother's body," he said.
The exhumation had been carried following requests from the family and prosecutors to check the veracity of the Russian autopsy reports carried out in the days after the official government plane slammed into the ground as it tried to land in dense fog.
The force of the impact was so great that some of the bodies were torn apart making formal identification difficult.
Pathologists also exhumed the body of Teresa Walewska-Przyjalkowska, another crash victim, to scotch or confirm suspicions, that the two bodies had been confused. This week's exhumation brings the total to five, and the prosecutor's office has confirmed that another four will take place.
If the results of the new autopsies reveal that Russian pathologists made mistakes then they could result in calls to exhume President Kaczynski and his wife Maria, who also died in the crash. The late presidential couple were interred in Krakow's Wawel Castle, the Polish equivalent of Westminster Abbey, and any exhumation would be carried out in the full glare of the media.
Thursday 20 September 2012
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/9555681/Polish-family-claims-Russia-mixed-up-remains-of-Smolensk-victims.html
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