WARSAW, Poland, Sept. 25 (UPI) -- The remains of Solidarity leader Anna Walentynowicz was switched with another victim of a plane crash in Russia, Polish officials said Tuesday.
Autopsies were carried out last week on the remains of Walentynowicz and Teresa Walewska-Przyjalkowska, Polskie Radio reported. The Military District Prosecutor's Office in Warsaw confirmed that forensic evidence showed the two were buried in the wrong graves.
Walentynowicz, whose firing in 1980 set off the historic Solidarity union strike at the Gdansk shipyard, and Teresa Walewska-Przyjalkowska were passengers on the plane carrying late President Lech Kaczynski and other top officials to a memorial for the victims of the Katyn Forest massacre in 1940. The plane crashed near Smolensk in Russia.
Polish investigators said the two women's coffins were misnumbered in Russia before their bodies were returned to Poland.
Walentynowicz's son, Janusz, said he holds "bitterness, resentment and anger" to the institutions that failed to ensure his mother's body was handled correctly.
