Poland questions EU’s Tusk for hours in case seen as revenge
WARSAW, Poland — Polish investigators questioned Donald Tusk, president of the European Council, for more than eight hours Thursday as a witness in an investigation into the 2010 plane crash that killed President Lech Kaczynski — a case widely seen as an attempt to discredit and humiliate the EU leader by his longtime rival.
Ahead of the interrogation, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the country’s ruling party leader and the brother of the former president, said Tusk “should be afraid.”
But Tusk emerged from the questioning by Polish prosecutors saying he would not be intimated by the proceedings, which his lawyer described as politically motivated.
“I do not have anything to fear. And Mr. Kaczynski will not scare me, no matter how badly he wants to get me,” Tusk told reporters after the questioning ended.