Cross honouring Poland crash victims moved into palace
Supporters of late Polish president infuriated after wooden cross in front of presidential palace is removed
Warsaw: Security officers removed a wooden cross from in front of Poland's presidential palace on Thursday, infuriating some supporters of the late president Lech Kaczynski whose death in a plane crash it was meant to honour.
Scouts erected the cross shortly after the April 10 crash to mourn the president and the 95 other victims, but it has come to symbolise Poland's political divisions, with die hard Kaczynski supporters resisting efforts by the authorities to remove it.
"Today, at around 8 in the morning (0600 GMT), the cross commemorating national mourning after the crash in Smolensk was moved into the chapel in the presidential palace," presidential aide Jacek Michalowski told a news conference.
