Jaroslaw Kaczynski has filed a cassation appeal after the Warsaw Court of Appeal dismissed his lawsuit against Radoslaw Sikorski over remarks about the Smolensk air crash.
The Warsaw Court of Appeal’s press office confirmed to the Polish Press Agency that the appeal had been filed. Under Polish procedure, cassation appeals are submitted to the Supreme Court through the court that issued the final ruling.
The dispute stems from a post Sikorski published on X about President Lech Kaczynski, who died in the 2010 Smolensk air crash. In March, the appeals court overturned a lower court ruling that had ordered Sikorski to apologize and dismissed Jaroslaw Kaczynski’s lawsuit. Polish media reported that the court considered Sikorski’s remark a permissible critical opinion.
Sikorski said on X that he had received notice of the appeal and recalled that the Miller Commission report, which classified the Smolensk disaster as an accident and ruled out an attack, had been part of the court record. The foreign minister also accused Kaczynski of inconsistency in his public statements on the issue.
The leader of the Law and Justice party rejected the criticism of the report at a news conference and called it scandalous, while saying he believed its account of the president’s role was accurate. The cassation appeal continues the civil case but does not itself change the appeals court’s ruling.