Leader of the Law and Justice party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski has said that he does not discount that his brother and president Lech was assassinated, adding that the Polish government is holding back the truth about the crash.

“The Prosecution has discounted an assassination with the data that it has, underlining, however, there may be more as it has received very little [to begin with],” Kaczynski told TVP Thursday morning.

“On what grounds should I discount an assassination, when Prosecutors are not in the possession of any material that would normally be processed in such circumstances?,” Kaczynski asked rhetorically.

“I would not want to say that this is a false investigation, but I do believe that the whole truth would be damaging for the present [government],” Kaczynski said, adding that the current incumbents “have entered a kind of game with Russia.”

The comments come after a report on BBC’s Newsnight programme aired in the UK on Wednesday night, and in which Kaczynski said that he felt guilty that he had not forced his brother to travel to Smolensk by train. (jb)