One in five Poles believes Smolensk crash was no accident…
PR dla Zagranicy
John Beauchamp
09.04.2015 12:15
A recent poll reveals that 22 percent of Poles believe that the Smolensk plane crash, which killed 96 people including President Lech Kaczyński in 2010, was the result of an assassination.
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The poll, conducted by Millward Brown for the Gazeta Wyborcza daily, comes ahead of the fifth anniversary of the catastrophe on 10 April.
The number of Poles believing that the crash was in fact a conspiracy dropped from 23 percent in 2014, although is higher than 2011’s number of just 12 percent.
The poll reveals that younger Poles between the ages of 18-24 are most likely to believe that the Smolensk crash was in fact an assassination attempt, with the number at 34 percent.
Meanwhile, the survey finds that 37 percent of Poles believe the crash happened due to pressure put on the pilots to land the Tupolev despite bad weather, up from 32 percent last year.
As many as 34 percent think that the accident is the sole responsibility of the pilots.
The poll was undertaken between 25-29 March. (jb)