Polish officials demand answers

23rd April 2010

Poland has demanded to know why Russian soldiers and policemen changed landing strip light bulbs at Smolensk airport shortly after the crash that killed President Kaczynski and large numbers of the country’s political and military elite.

They soldiers were caught on camera by Belarusian photographer Sergei Serebro merely an hour after the tragic event. Upon being spotted, Serebro was approached by officials who demanded he stopped taking any more pictures and leave.

Combined, the two incidents have left a shadow of doubt as to the condition of the light bulbs before the attempted landing.

Colonel Zbigniew Rzepa, a spokesman for the Chief Military Prosecutors Office, announced this ...