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Ukrainian Boeing shot down: Iran says it has started compensating families

2022-01-07T14:44:34.258Z


Iran has started to compensate some of the families of victims of the crash of a Ukrainian airliner shot down "by mistake" over Tehran it ...


Iran has started compensating some of the families of victims of the crash of a Ukrainian airliner shot down "

by mistake

" over Tehran two years ago with 176 people on board, the Iranian ministry said on Friday (January 7th). Foreign Affairs.

Read alsoIran: Rohani wants to punish those responsible for the Ukrainian Boeing crash

"

The Ministry of Transport has made payments to a number of families (of victims) in accordance with the regulations in force

," said the ministry in a statement released on the occasion of the 2nd anniversary of the tragedy. According to the deputy head of Iranian Civil Aviation, Arash Khodaï, quoted on Friday by the official Irna agency, "

the sum of $ 150,000 has been paid

" to some families and "

the process has been launched for other families.

". This compensation "

does not prevent them from pursuing the case in court

," he said.

On January 8, 2020, Iranian armed forces shot down the Boeing operating Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 between Tehran and Kiev, killing 176 people, mostly Iranians and Canadians, many of them binationals.

They did not admit until three days later having shot down the aircraft "

by mistake

".

Canadian compensation in parallel

In 2020, Iran had said it wanted to pay "

$ 150,000 or the equivalent in euros

" to each of the families of the victims of the accident. This announcement had been strongly criticized, in particular by Kiev and by the head of the Canadian diplomacy of the time, François-Philippe Champagne. On Monday in Canada, the Ontario superior court announced that it had awarded six plaintiffs 107 million Canadian dollars (74 million euros) in compensation, plus interest.

No details were given on how Iran would pay the money, but lawyers for the families threatened the next day to seize Iranian assets in Canada or abroad.

The Iranian judicial authority announced last November that the trial of ten soldiers "

of different ranks

" in the case of the crash had opened in Tehran.

On the night of the tragedy, Iran's air defenses were on high alert.

The Islamic Republic had just attacked a base used by the US military in Iraq in response to the elimination five days earlier, in an American strike in Baghdad, by General Qassem Soleimani, architect of Iran's regional strategy, and Tehran expected a response from Washington.

Source: lefigaro

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