Families of dead Malaysian Boeing passengers filed a lawsuit against Putin

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Australian media reported that several families from Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia filed a lawsuit with the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) over the crash of the MH17 flight over Donbas. According to media reports, the defendants in the lawsuit are Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin. Reports about it bbc.com.

About filing a lawsuit announced Australian law firm LHD Lawyers.

Plaintiffs charge AUD $ 10 million (US $ 7,2 million) from respondents for each of the dead relatives. In the case of a successful outcome of the case, these payments may be the largest compensation associated with an accident.

According to the Sydney Morning Herald, there are 33 plaintiffs, including eight Australians, one New Zealand citizen, and the rest from Malaysia.

According to News.com.au, the case will be led by American lawyer Jerry Skinner, an international air law specialist, on behalf of the plaintiffs. As Skinner told reporters, he is still awaiting confirmation that the ECtHR accepted the suit for consideration.

At the heart of the lawsuit, News.com.au journalists found out, is a statement about the violation of the right to life of those who were on board the downed liner.

The answer from the Kremlin

A spokesman for the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, told Interfax that the Kremlin does not yet have information confirming reports of filing a similar lawsuit to the ECHR.

At the same time, the plenipotentiary plenipotentiary of Russia at the ECHR, Georgy Matyushkin, said that this information is currently useless to comment.

“For the authorities of any country, a complaint to the ECHR on any grounds and from any applicant exists only at the time of official communication, which does not yet exist,” Matyushkin said on the Ekho Moskvy radio station.

In the Federation Council, commenting on the news about the filing of a lawsuit, they stated that they consider it as an element of psychological warfare. The Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security, Franz Klintsevich, expressed the opinion that this claim does not have judicial prospects.

“The claim against our country filed with the ECHR in this case is legally void and has no prospects,” Klintsevich told the TASS agency, adding that there is no evidence of Russia’s involvement in the destruction of the Malaysian plane.

Charge

Malaysia Airlines' Boeing 777, which flew from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, crashed on July 17 2014 in eastern Ukraine. All passengers and crew aboard were killed.

At the time of the plane crash, fighting was taking place in eastern Ukraine between armed groups calling themselves the “Donetsk People's Republic” and Ukrainian government forces. After 15 months of work by experts, the Dutch Safety Board stated in its report that the plane was shot down by an anti-aircraft missile from a Russian-made Buk missile launcher.

Russia categorically denies its involvement in the destruction of the airliner, as well as the transfer of the anti-aircraft installation to the separatists.

Deputy head of the Federal Air Transport Agency Oleg Storchevoy, in a letter to the Chairman of the Safety Council of the Netherlands, Tjibbe Jaustre, expressed the opinion that the conclusions of Dutch investigators about the causes of the crash of the Malaysian Boeing over the Donbass are not sufficiently substantiated.

As indicated in the letter of the Russian official, fragments of an anti-aircraft missile found near the remains of the liner may not belong to the rocket that shot down the aircraft.

At the same time, the international investigative team Bellingcat was able to establish the exact number of the self-propelled firing system of the Buk anti-aircraft missile system, which, in their opinion, shot down a Boeing passenger plane over Ukraine on July 17, 2014.

See also:

Experts find out the number of the installation "Buk", which could bring down "Boeing" - Bellingcat

Bellingcat handed over the list of those involved in the crash of "Boeing" in Ukraine

"Boeing" shot down the Russian "Buk", but Ukraine is to blame

Investigation denied the Russian version of the crash of "Boeing" in Ukraine

Advisor to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine: “Beech”, shot down “Boeing-777”, militants have already taken to Russia

Russia is demanding reimbursement for the Boeing experiment

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