Today is the second anniversary of the tragedy of Smolensk. This is how the airplane crash with the Polish president couple and lots of diplomats on board is being called in Poland ever since. A very true compassion and grief tilted over into a whole range of reactions after the tragedy has been talked into a political issue: from indifference and disgust to hysteria and catholic fundamentalism. And it still continues.

Polish grocery store, Kiel, Northern Germany 2010

In front of the presidential residence in Warsaw there was a wooden cross to commemorate the dead. The cross has been occupied by radicals as soon as it was supposed to be moved from outdoor to a Church at Krakowskie Przedmiescie (name of the street). Special security forces were day and night trying to keep order in front of the most representative buildings in Poland. July 2010

Radical Catholic occupying the cross with portrait of the dead president couple.

People in front of the cross.