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RELATIVES OF GERMAN victims of downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 plan to sue Ukraine and its president for criminal negligence for not closing the country’s airspace, a lawyer representing them has confirmed.
Elmar Giemulla, an attorney and professor of aviation law who is representing three German families, said he would file suit soon before the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg.
“Every country bears the responsibility for the security of its airspace,” he wrote in a statement.
By keeping its airspace open for transit by aircraft from other countries, the state must ensure the safety of the flights. If this is temporarily impossible, it means that it should close its airspace.
The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 exploded over insurgent-held east Ukraine on 17 July, killing all 298 on board, 193 of them Dutch.
Four were German, according to the airline.
The findings of an initial report by a Dutch-led team of air crash investigators appear to back up claims that the plane was hit by an anti-aircraft missile.
Kiev and the West have accused separatists of shooting it down with a surface-to-air BUK missile supplied by Russia — a charge Moscow denies.
Giemulla said in an email he would file the lawsuit against the Ukrainian government and President Petro Poroshenko alleging 298 counts of manslaughter by negligence in about two weeks, and seek damages for pain and suffering of at least €1 million per victim.
He said the litigation would not target Russia as “the evidence was not yet sufficient” but added that he did not rule out launching a lawsuit against Moscow in future.
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And if they succeed. Everybody will be making a claim!
They won’t, unless they have indisputable evidence that the Ukrainians knew the rebels had an active Buk launcher in the area and ignored it.
Sue Russia?
why the ukraine shot it down under usa orders.
The truth behind MH17 http://youtu.be/b67OGUsQC44
Great video.
Thanks Derek,SCG has great information,and those 14 dislikers don’t like the truth!
good info but the video is very annoying
His voice is very monotone at times and I’m not gone on his accent but the information is great
it’s the text as well and the special effects.
There is no need for special effects people want info not text sliding in from the side or staying up for a second when it would take a minute to read.
Great info spoiled by an amateurish video
Jesus thats one stupid video full of crap
Really Aaron? All the sources are there,the facts are right in front of you and somehow it’s just crap?Not very logical at all.
Well i’ll give you one example of the crap its spouting, the aircraft was 20 nautical miles off course, not 300, its bullshit with an agenda that thankfully normal minded people know not to believe.
Oh and it was off course as the pilots asked to deviate due to bad weather ahead of them.
are you sure about that Aaron? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/ukraine/10975524/Crashed-MH17-flight-was-300-miles-off-typical-course.html
What were they going to tell the media? “Yes the government in Kiev rang and we told the plane to fly over a war zone under their orders alone” Of course they’re going to say it was some other factor!
No I believe the details of the CVR and Black Box and the official report from Dutch investigators, not some clowns looking for agendas. I suppose you believe MH370 is parked up somewhere too!
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Yes!You get it!
What a bunch of eejits. The government has nothing to do with this, these are terrorist organisation sponsored by Russia which Germany and Ukraine together are trying to get rid of.
Hey I have an idea, why don’t the survivors of 5 million dead jews sue Germany for WW2? After all, regardless of Hitler, he was the official chancellor of Germany and the government officials pulled the trigger. We don’t care if today’s German government condemned what happened bak then, it still was a mass killing made by a recognised government
The reasoning in their claim is absolutely ridiculous. The only intelligence the Ukrainian government had at the time was that the rebels had only short-range missiles which could not reach the altitude of civilian aircraft traffic lanes and two Buk launchers without the matching security keys to fire them. There was no reason to believe at the time that civilian traffic was in danger.
This was supposed to be the false flag that started a war with russia. Exceept russia had satellite images whhich proved that the ukraine brought down the flight.
I read the summary of his speech Pavel. It appears Russia is a “planetary threat” to civilisation lol Indeed the threat is so serious that the yanks have agreed to do absolutely nothing for poor Porky and his rag tag terrorist army. They will not only not intervene the won’t even give him weapons. How long do you think it will be before we see “regime change” in Kiev? Did you notice that he asked publicly for assistance from the yanks? He would have been advised by them to do so. Then they publicly said no. Oh dear it seems our friends in Washington are getting bored of the chocolate king. My money says Porky is gone before the new year.
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