According to Ireneusz Szelag, Chief Warsaw Military Prosecutor, the mistake occurred due to incorrect identifications made in Russia following the April 2010 plane crash.
President Ryszard Kaczorowski's family did not take part in that initial identification process.
A second male victim, whose name has not been disclosed to the media owing to the family's wishes, was mistakenly entombed at Warsaw's national pantheon, the Temple of Divine Providence, in place of the late president.
“DNA tests have led to the conclusion that due to misidentification, the bodies were buried in the wrong graves,” Szelag said at a press conference on Tuesday.
“The bodies were not changed,” he claimed.
Szelag noted that the families have already been informed of the mistake.
The exhumations took place on Monday 22 October.
They follow the confirmation last month that two other crash victims, including the late Solidarity activist Anna Walentynowicz, were also buried in the wrong graves.
Seven victims of the April 2010 crash have now been exhumed, and it has been confirmed that two more exhumations are due to occur this year
President Kaczorowski was the last leader of the Polish government-in-exile in London, which remained in Britain following World War II owing to the installation of a communist regime in Poland.
Tthe presidential insignia was finally returned to Poland in December 1990 by Kaczorowski himself, following the collapse of the Iron Curtain.
Wednesday 31 October 2012
http://www.thenews.pl/1/9/Artykul/116948,Prosecutor-confirms-second-burial-mixup-of-Smolensk-victims
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