Ewa Blasik; photo - PAP archives

The widow of the late General Andrzej Blasik is pushing for Russia's investigative committee into the air disaster last April which killed her husband to remove sensitive material from its website.

Ewa Blasik's lawyer Bartosz Kownacki has postulated that the organisation has defied the Chicago convention in its actions.

The controversy hinges on the publication of sensitive details regarding the state of victims in the wake of the catastrophe in western Russia last April. Not only are details of the autopsy available, but also the precise state of the general's body at the moment it was located near the airport.

“There was not and is not any factual or legal basis for the disclosure of such detailed information concerning the autopsy,” Kownacki argues.

“It is solely fodder for the Polish and international media and a cause of pain and suffering to those close to the general.”

Kownacki states that the General's family tried to deal with the matter through Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who allegedly did not act on the matter, hence the family's current campaign via the media.

General Blasik was himself a focus of emotive debate in the aftermath of crash. MAK noted that the soldier had entered the cockpit during the flight, and that he had a blood alcohol level of 0.06 percent. (nh)