WARSAW, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- European Council President and former Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has been questioned as a witness on Thursday here in the ongoing investigation of 2010 Polish presidential plane crash near Smolensk, Russia.
The questioning lasted eight hours.
"I have nothing to fear," Tusk said upon leaving the National Public Prosecutor's Office, adding that both "Smolensk tragedy and the law should not be used for the political ends".
He also emphasized that no one had ever given an order to ban the opening of coffins with the victims of the catastrophe.
The investigation in which Tusk is giving his testimony, concerns the public officials allegedly "failing to take part in the post-mortem examinations of the crash victims conducted in Russia and failing to order autopsies directly after the victims' bodies were brought to Poland, contrary to the applicable provisions of the Code of Criminal Procedure". For legal reasons, Tusk informed he could not "describe the character" of the Thursday hearing.
On April 10, 2010, a Polish government plane with then Polish president, first lady and dozens of senior government officials and military commanders crashed near a military airfield in Smolensk, western Russia, killing all 96 people on board.
