Jaroslaw Kaczynski, head of Poland's opposition party, said Monday that he did not recognize his dead brother Lech's corpse when it was brought back to Poland after the April plane crash in Smolensk, Russia, dpa reported.
"I don't deny that while I recognized the body of my brother at the airport (in Smolensk) ... when I saw the body brought to Poland in a coffin, I didn't recognize him," Kaczynski said. "Here was a person who did not at all resemble my brother. I was told it was him."
Kaczynski added that he had reason to believe that not all the body parts examined during the autopsy belonged to his brother, who was president of Poland at the time of the crash.
The plane crash on April 10 in Smolensk, Russia, killed Lech Kaczynski, Jaroslaw's twin brother, and 95 others en route to a ceremony commemorating a Soviet-era massacre of Polish officers.
The topic has become politicized with Kaczynski claiming the government was partly to blame for the tragedy because it did not ensure proper security for the flight.