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President Ryszard Kaczorowski lying in state
President Ryszard Kaczorowski lying in state
President Ryszard Kaczorowski lying in state
Credit: Cezary Piwowarski
A body misidentified as that of Ryszard Kaczorowski lies in state in the Belvedere Palace of Warsaw. The Battle of Monte Cassino veteran and Poland's last president-in-exile died with dozens of other Polish statesmen in the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash in Russia. Exhumations in 2012 revealed that his remains had been mistakenly swapped with those of another casualty.