Media: families of victims of the crash Malaysian Boeing want compensation from Russia – Onet.pl

 
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According to Australian media, each family demands around 10 million Australian dollars.

As reported by “Sydney Morning Herald”, May 9 Australian office LHD Lawyers Legal documents filed in this case in the ECHR on behalf of 33 relatives of the victims – eight, which came from Australia, one from New Zealand and the rest of Malaysia.

As the portal News.com.au, with a population of 3.5 thousand. party claim is based on the assumption that the right has been infringed passengers to life. The respondents are the Russian state and its president.

Boeing 777, which made a flight MH17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur He crashed in eastern Ukraine July 17, 2014 year. It killed 298 people, including 193 Dutch citizens, 43 – Malaysia, 27 – Australia.

According to published in October 2015 years of Dutch report office Affairs. security (OVV) machine was shot down a missile ground-to-air Buk produced in Russia. OVV not explained, however, who fired the rocket.

Office LHD Lawyers maintains that Russia was trying to hide it, allegedly had anything to do with the crash.

Official “Sydney Morning Herald” notes that a colleague LHD Lawyers, Jerry Skinner, who leads the matter and whose signature was on the application to the ECHR, in the past managed to fight its customers with high compensation, including for the Lockerbie bombing in 1988.

Skinner told News.com.au that the families is difficult to live with the knowledge that there was a “crime.” As judged from the very beginning Russia did not cooperate during the investigation into the crash. “The Russians do not have any evidence on which the accused Ukraine (by shooting down a Boeing – PAP). We have evidence, photographs, memoranda, tons of different things,” – he stressed. He added that now the lawyers are waiting for a response from the ECHR whether their case has been adopted.

Quoted by ” Sydney Morning Herald, “Skinner referred to the crash of Russian airline Metrojet, which last October He crashed in the Sinai. Killed 224 people, mostly Russian vacationers.

“Putin lost his plane over the Sinai and offered $ 50 million anyone who gives him the evidence. Given that (Putin – PAP) spoke publicly, the idea is to keep his word and paid for their own mistakes, which are very similar to what happened to his countrymen, “- said the lawyer.

Russia and Western governments believe that the cause of the crash over the Sinai was probably a bomb, a jihadist group Islamic State ( IS) claims that przemyciło an explosive device on board the machine. After the accident, the FSB said that the information about persons that may be related to stroke a reward of 50 million dollars.

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