Funeral of Polish president Lech Kaczynski

Krakow and Warsaw airports were closed on Friday. Presidential aide Jacek Sasin said that postponing the funeral, either until late on Sunday or until Monday was a “very serious alternative.”

He said though that it was ”a purely hypothetical scenario and unlikely - there’s no plan as such.” Other members of the funeral preparation team tried to play down the prospect of a postponement, fearing that it would further confuse the arrangements for what is being billed as an informal “congress of Europe.”