It's too emotional for me," Ploeg said.
They should have come forward. Samira Calehr told us she will not attend. You are with Shaka. Defence lawyers have effectively asked for a fresh investigation into the MH17 tragedy in which 298 people died, which if allowed could delay the Dutch criminal case for years. The Boeing 777, 20 feet wide and 200 feet long, was torn by an estimated 800 pieces of shrapnel, each the size of a bullet. This image taken from video, Thursday July 17, 2014, shows a suitcase found in the wreckage of Flight MH17. "We have just shot down a plane," a rebel commander said before realizing the catastrophic mistake. He was subordinate to the three Russians – Girkin, Dubinskiy and Pulatov – and is the only Ukrainian to have been charged so far by the Dutch-led joint investigation team. (AP Photo/Channel 1) In this image taken from video, Thursday July 17, 2014, showing part of the wreckage of a passenger plane carrying 298 people was shot down Thursday. Although formally separate from Moscow, the body closely coordinated its effort with the Russian GRU. "And in Kursk, there's a missile brigade called the 53rd Air Defense Brigade, and we were able to establish for certain the missile launcher came from that particular brigade. Her son, Mika, agreed. "Prosecutors told us their investigation is continuing beyond the trial. The youngest boy was worried. "One was, was it an accident? He told us, "Someone has to be the scapegoat, so they picked me and others who couldn't even theoretically shoot down this plane. A warhead detonated ten feet to the left of Captain Eugene Choo's windscreen. "We were able to identify, from the 298 casualties, 296. “Whoever systematically violates humanitarian law cannot invoke it to their benefit in a criminal trial,” he said.Russia has always denied any involvement in the shooting down of the plane.The Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, accused Dutch authorities last week of orchestrating a media campaign to compensate for gaps in the evidence and assembling facts to fit a predetermined verdict.The opening sessions will not get into these details, but will be devoted to what Steenhuis called “mapping out the current state of play”. I feel sadness. “It is important to establish the facts now. "Oh, you didn't think about it and after MH17 we always think about it," Ploeg said.Flight 17 was three hours into a 12-hour route when it came within range of a war. He said, 'You promise me?' "Is that correct? "I want them to know what they have done, and what they have done to not only to the victims but also the next of kin," Ploeg said. "They should have told us that at the second day after it happened, they should've told us, 'We made a mistake,' or 'We did something which shouldn't have happened.' Lawyers will pore over a case file that already stands at 36,000 pages, and many digital pieces of evidence. "I saw my nieces falling in each other's arms when they realized their parents and their brother were dead.
“We do not think that these defendants pressed the button that launched the Buk missile,” he said. Higgins found images, crowdsourced online. And the last two, most importantly, was it air-to-air, like, was it shot by a plane? "We considered it a national crisis. It was cloudy. "There's the white truck. "Everybody will be haunted by the fact that they're still out there and not in custody," Mika said.The trial is scheduled to begin March 9 and will be heard by a panel of three Dutch judges. Just days before the murders, Eliot Higgins started a U.K.-based group of online detectives that he calls Bellingcat, named for a fable of mice tying a bell to a cat to warn of danger. Fred Westerbeke is the chief prosecutor who's been on the case from the start. “They have had but a brief space of time to prepare for this hearing,” Steenhuis said.Nine lawyers have been hired to represent some of the victims and their families They also have the right to speak in court, alongside public prosecutors and the defence.The trial, which will also include testimony from the family of the victims, is expected to last several months. That is what they should have done, and they never did. But despite that, the day Flight 17 entered the airspace, 160 airliners crossed over Ukraine. "And that took us back to a town called Kursk," Higgins said. “However we do think that they played a significant coordinating role in the transportation and positioning of the Buk-Telar and its removal back to Russia, making them so closely involved that they can be held responsible under criminal law for the downing of flight MH17.”Ferdinandusse said it was perfectly conceivable the men had intended to shoot down a Ukrainian military jet, but that did not exclude prosecution or entitle them to claim combat immunity because they were not regular military personnel.