Editors fired over plane crash report
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November 7, 2012, Wednesday
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One of Poland's best-selling newspapers fired its most senior editors yesterday over a "flawed" article that triggered a political row when it said traces of explosives had been found in the wreckage of a presidential jet that crashed in 2010.
Polish prosecutors denied a report last week by the Rzeczpospolita daily which alleged they had found traces of TNT and nitro-glycerine on the wings and in the cabin of the airplane, which killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others when it crashed in Russia two years ago.
The report, which cited unnamed sources, prompted the late-president's twin brother and opposition leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski to lash out at Prime Minister Donald Tusk over his handling of the affair, which he called a "heinous crime."
In a statement in yesterday's edition, Rzeczpospolita said its supervisory board had recommended that Editor-in-Chief Tomasz Wroblewski, his top deputy, and the two leaders of the national section be dismiss
sed.
"The reporters associated with the publication did not have the grounds to state that traces of TNT and nitro-glycerine were found in the wreckage," the newspaper said. "We deem the text to be flawed and inadequately documented."
The board also asked for the author of the article to be fired after he failed to provide any written proof to back up his sources.
Official reports say the jet crashed into the ground after losing one of its wings when it clipped a birch tree on its approach to a small airport in Smolensk, western Russia.
Polish prosecutors denied a report last week by the Rzeczpospolita daily which alleged they had found traces of TNT and nitro-glycerine on the wings and in the cabin of the airplane, which killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others when it crashed in Russia two years ago.
The report, which cited unnamed sources, prompted the late-president's twin brother and opposition leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski to lash out at Prime Minister Donald Tusk over his handling of the affair, which he called a "heinous crime."
In a statement in yesterday's edition, Rzeczpospolita said its supervisory board had recommended that Editor-in-Chief Tomasz Wroblewski, his top deputy, and the two leaders of the national section be dismiss
sed.
"The reporters associated with the publication did not have the grounds to state that traces of TNT and nitro-glycerine were found in the wreckage," the newspaper said. "We deem the text to be flawed and inadequately documented."
The board also asked for the author of the article to be fired after he failed to provide any written proof to back up his sources.
Official reports say the jet crashed into the ground after losing one of its wings when it clipped a birch tree on its approach to a small airport in Smolensk, western Russia.
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