Lech Walesa and Jaroslaw Kaczynski remain divided. The former Polish president and the head of the conservative governing party saw themselves in court for defamation and refused mediation.
Kaczynski's brother and head of state Lech Kaczynski was killed in a plane crash eight years ago. The dispute is about a Facebook entry Walesa, in which he accused Kaczynski to have been responsible for the air disaster.
The former Solidarity chief also accused his opponent in the process again, despite extreme weather conditions, the risky landing approach in the Russian Smolensk "arranged". The pilot is said to have asked the President for a decision to an alternate airport because of dense fog. This should have telephoned with his brother. The content of the call was not published.
Kaczynski had been open to comparison
The allegations are "particularly insulting" for someone who has lost a relative, even a monozygotic twin, said Kaczynski. He was open to the comparison proposed by the judge. This provided that Walesa takes back his allegations, which he refused.
Kaczynski did not fail to accuse Walesa of an "intellectual deficit" and described it as a "threat to democracy in Poland". He demands from Walesa an apology and 30,000 zloty (7,000 euros) of compensation for pain - to be paid to a charitable institution. The court in Gdansk has announced a decision for December 6.