After the accident of the Polish coach in Mezőkeresztes in Hungary, which took place on August 16 at around 1 o'clock, 12 Poles died and respective twelve people were injured. Joanna Pinkwart of Channel Zero cast chaos and deficiency of announced contact with families; the MFA rejects the charges. Trust in the state is at stake.
Charges after the Miskolc conference
After the tragedy of the Polish coach in Hungary, there was a public dispute over whether families of victims and wounded received adequate consular support. This is not a substance of inexpensive trouble. erstwhile Polish citizens are killed and their loved ones are standing at a infirmary in a abroad country, the state is to be visible, circumstantial and peaceful.
By Joanna Pinkwart's coverage for Zero.pl, during the Monday conference in front of the infirmary in Miskolc, the families were to hear that the consul was on site and to come down to the gathered. The writer claims that the expected gathering had not taken place, and that the relatives of the victims were left with a sense of information chaos. It's a serious charge, due to the fact that at hours like this, a procedure without a human presence sounds like an empty word to the family.
Pinkwart besides described divergent information, problems with getting answers and tension around the formalities. Her relation includes families, representatives of the Polish community and journalists who tried to find who actually coordinates contact with the victims. That doesn't find the officials' fault. However, it shows that the state's communication after tragedy must be immune to the simplest test: whether the household knows who to approach and what to do.
The MFA rejects the charges
Mr Maciej Wewiór, a spokesperson for the Ministry of abroad Affairs, responded to the allegations. As Interia described, the spokesperson called the journalist's relation “manipulated” and argued that the consul and the squad had been operating since 6am, visiting troops, talking to doctors, answering phones and assisting in formalities related to the return of parts of the victims to Poland.
These are claims that should be clearly documented by the ministry. Not to bid on families in pain. So that the public can see a quiet calendar of activities: hours, places, scope of assistance, channels of contact. In the case of the death of 12 Poles, the state cannot hide behind the emotional exchange of sentences on social media.
The MFA has the right to defend its people if they have done hard work under large pressure. He besides has a work to perceive to those who talk about chaos. In a average state, loyalty to the office does not mean to close your eyes to signals from citizens. Especially erstwhile it comes to the families of the victims.
Numbers match the scale of tragedy
By MFA message, the accident occurred on Sunday around 1 o'clock on the M3 motorway in Mezőkeresztes in the northeast of Hungary. 59 people were traveling on the car. 12 passengers were killed and respective twelve people were injured.
The hotel reported that the victims were hospitalized in Miskolc, Eger, Nyíregyháza and Debrecen. Polish medical teams, government representatives and consular officials were to visit hospitals and measure the anticipation of transporting patients to Rzeszów. On Monday, 21 people were scheduled to fly on a government plane.
MFA besides launched telephone line of the Polish Embassy in Budapest for families and close victims and injured. The telephone number itself is needed, but the number alone is not enough. With specified a tragedy, the household needs 1 place of information, a translation of documents, the presence of an authoritative and a clear investigation.
State must be with the citizen
The National diary has already written that Bus accident became a stress-test for the state. This test does not end with sending a delegation and launching a hotline. It only ends erstwhile injured people are treated safely, families know what happens to loved ones, and the bodies of the victims can return with due respect.
One must besides remember the second danger: the chaos around the tragedy is rapidly exploited by people without conscience. Therefore, warnings about attempts at fraud that we wrote about in the material After an accident in Hungary, cheaters call familiesThey're not part of the case. They show that mediocre state communication leaves an empty space. individual can fill them with lies.
The Polish state should be easy to receive at specified times. There's a number. There's a name. There's an authoritative here. There's a translator. There's information about the next steps. The household is not expected to look for a state between the conference, the infirmary corridor and the Ombudsman's entry.
Clearance without screaming
Now it's up to the wounded, the families, and the worthy to deal with the dead. The public settlement of consular procedures should come calmly, with papers and without medial feeding on pain. But it should come. Tragedy cannot become a veil for questions about the functioning of the institution.
If the MFA version is full and true, the ministry should be able to show it in an orderly manner. If communication has failed in any place, it must be corrected, not covered by a dispute over words. A abroad citizen is not a door-to-door petent. He is simply a associate of the political community for which the Republic takes responsibility.
The sovereignty of the state is measured at the border, in the negotiating rooms and under the infirmary in Miskolec, erstwhile the Polish household hears a clear conviction after the death of their loved ones: we are here, we are conducting the case, you will not be alone.
Source: WP News, Zero.pl, Interia, Ministry of abroad Affairs.
Source: WP News
