Poland to Pay Tribute to Late President Kaczynski Tuesday

People lay flowers on the street as they wait for the hearse with the coffin containing the body of late president Lech Kaczynski in Warsaw, Poland, 11 April 2010. Photo by EPA/BGNES

The body of late Polish President Lech Kaczynski, which was brought from Smolensk to Warsaw Sunday, will lie in state on Tuesday.

This is going to allow the Polish people to pay tribute in person Kaczynski, who perished together with 95 other people, including a number of top-ranking Polish officials in Saturday’s plane crash near Smolensk in Russia on way to Katyn Massacre remembrance ceremonies.

Jacek Sasis, Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration in Poland, has announced that the authorities picked Tuesday in order to have more time to prepare the memorial, BGNES reported.

He also said the members of the government and the Presidential Administration are going to meet in order to discuss the plans for the funeral of Lech Kaczynski.

Hundreds of thousands of Poles went out in the streets of Warsaw on Sunday in order to pay tribute to Lech Kaczynski, whose coffin was transported from the military airport to the Presidential Palace.

Only 14 bodies of the total of 96 casualties in the Smolensk crash have been identified so far. The body of the President is the only one to have been brought back to Warsaw.

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