The Crown has concluded the survey targeting the four Russian and Ukrainian accused pursued for the MH17 flight attack on July 17, 2014, who had made 298 dead. It requires life.
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By pronouncing his indictment, Thursday, December 22, the Prosecutor explains that he will not come back on the terrifying details of the repatriation of dislocked bodies of the 298 passengers of the flight MH17 shot over Ukraine on July 17, 2014. ” How can one say a 15 year old boy that his mother will never come back? “, Queries, nevertheless, Thijs Berger. “The consequences of this crime are enormous,” says the prosecutor to the Judges of the Schiphol court, who sits near Amsterdam Airport where, this day of the summer of 2014, took off the flights Amsterdam-Kuala Lumpur of Malaysia Airlines. The Prosecutor has a long detail the tragic impact of the crime of which Russians Sergei Doubinski, Igor Guirkin and Oleg Poulatov, as well as Ukrainian Leonid Khartchenko.
On the relatives of the 298 victims, first, of which “life will never be as before”. On the inhabitants of Pervomaïski and the surrounding area, who have seen the bodies fall into the donbass sky, this region of the eastern Ukraine under the fire of the fighting, since April 2014, separatists Prorusses and Ukrainian forces. Finally, on international relations and tensions between Westerners and Russians, revived by the drama.
Without surprise, the Crown required perpetuity against the four men since March 2020. “Even if they do not have themselves supported the button, they are responsible for the fall of the MH17, “said the Attorney Thijs Berger. Although the accused did not target a commercial aircraft and 298 passengers. Even if it is “negligence”. This is the thesis of “the error” that the Crown has retained, after seven years of investigations conducted by the investigators of five nations endowed by the drama (Malaysia, Ukraine, the Netherlands, Belgium and Australia).
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This July 17, 2014, Sergei Doubinski, Igor Guirkin, Oleg Poullatov and Leonid Khartchenko did not intend to shoot down the flight 17 of Malaysia Airlines – “Chinese”, as they will designate in their telephone communications Intercepted – nor to kill the 298 civilians on board. But “together, they asked for the buk [the sol-air missile system, the crime weapon] to the Russian Federation and deployed it in order to slaughter an airplane.” They used it to “serve their own military interests”. Legally, “a target error does not make the difference, assists the prosecutor. It does not matter that the accused intended to slaughter a military or civilian plane, they are criminally responsible.”
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