Lawyer of 40 families of the dead during the crash of MH17 in the Donbass is sure that the fault of Moscow in the tragedy has already been proven

Today, in the court complex in the Dutch Schiphol, the criminal process began in the case of July 17, 2014 on the Donbass of the Malaysian Boeing. Lawyers, relatives of the dead, several hundred journalists from different countries came to the court. All of them will monitor the development of events within five days - this is how much the first period of hearings will take that will last a total of about six months. In anticipation of the court, several journalists managed to talk with Jerry Skinner - a lawyer Flamingos Air, Amsterdam and Partners, a lawyer who filed a lawsuit against the ECHR against Russia and Putin on behalf of the relatives of the victims of the shot down Boeing. The special correspondent of "New" Alexander Georgevich participated in an interview and gives the main quotes from the conversation

About your participation

“I represent 40 families from Australia and Malaysia, along with a group of other lawyers. All families filed claims to Strasbourg, this is 391 members of the family, that is, more than there were passengers aboard the aircraft. Nevertheless, in this criminal process I will be minimally involved: I intend to observe everything that will happen in court in order to understand what evidence we can use in our case. ”

Recall that lawyers filed a lawsuit in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on behalf of the relatives of passengers of the Malaysian Boeing on May 9, 2016. The plaintiffs were 33 relatives of Australia, Malaysia and New Zealand, who formed a broken airliner on board. As a defendant in a lawsuit, according to which compensation of $ 10 million must be paid to family members of each deceased, the Russian Federation is indicated.

“So most of the evidence will be the same in ours and in this case, we must pay great attention to this process. And we want to be sure that everything that is in the criminal case is with us, and we can use it. Our lawsuit in the ECHR will soon be four years old. In my country, Mr. Trump is responsible for everything that goes wrong. In the case of Mr. Putin, I do not think that the weapon ( “Buk” , ed. ) Left the country without its approval and approval of its administration. Money in this lawsuit is not the main thing, relatives simply want to know who did it and why. ”

About the causes of the tragedy from Russia

“We believe that the Russian authorities have such a political habit-to counteract the reforms taking place in the satellite states, as it was in Georgia, in other places, they want to introduce their military there in order to control the entire process, and so that this led to a new rise in Russia, as Mr. Putin loves. They had disagreements ( with Ukraine , - Ed. ), They had hostility, they annexed Crimea, and then switched to Eastern Ukraine, because there are economic resources and Russian -speaking people. If we turn to history, we will see that when Russia has such contradictions with the Satteztelita states, they meet the discovery of fire. That is, we believe that all this was a deliberate politically motivated provocation in relation to Ukraine. ”

On the criminal process and suspects

“It is clear that the suspects declared here are, one might say, people at the level of junior managers. Obviously, they have higher leaders, including the military of the Russian army. In addition, there are people who shot directly.

This trial will be like cleansing the bulb, the layer by the layer will need to find all the people who took part in this.

It will be interesting, we will hear all the names. ”

About a possible position of Russia

“The position of Russia will be ordinary: we have not done this, and you cannot prove it. In the United States, it is called the "protection of Bart Simpson." Unfortunately for them, in this particular case, many have seen the perpetrators, recorded many, overheard many, and they themselves left behind physical evidence. ”

About the first period of hearings

“The whole process will last, I think, about a year. The main thing is that he does not drag on the next year. This week will be technical, they will discuss what is done, what will happen in the future, but it is not worth expecting a lot in the coming days. The most important thing will begin later.

I expect that the investigation team will be able to show which people participated in the planning of this tragedy, and prove it. It is necessary that the perpetrators are responsible for the fact that people are killed. In addition to those four who are already known from the suspects, there are definitely other perpetrators. If they are not yet named, this does not mean that they are not responsible. ”

PS

Russia in this process refused to take part, so it is impossible to get comments on our part.