Sebastian Karpiniuk
Sebastian Karpiniuk ( born December 4, 1972 in Kolobrzeg, † 10 April 2010 Smolensk, Russia) was a Polish politician of the Civic Platform.
Biography
Karpiniuk was Advisor to the Mayor of Kolobrzeg.
Since 25 September 2005, he was a member of the party " Platforma Obywatelska " in the Sejm. He was elected with 9767 votes from the constituency 40 Koszalin. On April 10, 2010 Karpiniuk came in the plane crash near Smolensk killed. The aircraft, which was on approach to the Russian military airfield Smolensk - North, crashed out of yet unknown cause. It was here at the plane of Polish President Lech Kaczynski, who was among the victims also.
Posthumously Karpiniuk was awarded on 16 April 2010 the Commander's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta ( Krzyż Komandorski Orderu Odrodzenia Polski ).