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The Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed that the decision of the Dutch court in the case of the Malaysian passenger plane crash over eastern Ukraine in 2014 “impugns the integrity of the entire Dutch judicial system.”
And the website of Russia Today channel quoted the ministry as commenting on the Dutch court’s decision, “The course and results of the investigations indicate that it was based on a political request to support the hypothesis of Russia’s involvement in the disaster,” noting that the court was under unprecedented pressure from Dutch politicians, prosecutors and the media. Those who were imposing politicized results of the investigations.
The ministry stressed that it is not possible to talk about the objectivity and impartiality of the court in such circumstances, noting that the court did not notice that all the conclusions of the Dutch Public Prosecution were based on the testimonies of eyewitnesses whose names were not mentioned and whose identities were not revealed, and on questionable data, including This is from a party with its own interest, which is the Ukrainian Security Service.
The ministry added, “The court also did not pay attention to the defense’s arguments about the lack of corroborative evidence that the plane was shot down by the Russian-made Buk missile system, and to the documents of the Russian Ministry of Defense regarding the missile,” indicating that the court did not want to see the details about the location of the missile. missile launch,
It ignored the facts indicating that the launch may have taken place from the territory controlled by the Ukrainian military.
The Russian Foreign Ministry stated that Ukraine refused to provide radar data and audio recordings of the conversations of the ground control bodies and others, and that the court did not properly analyze Kyiv's responsibility for not closing the airspace over the area of combat operations.
At the end of its statement, the Ministry affirmed that the judicial proceedings in the Netherlands may become one of the biggest scandals in the history of the judiciary, with this long record of strange and contradictory matters and questionable arguments on the part of the prosecution on which the ruling was based, expressing its deep regret that the Hague Court ignored the principles of impartial justice and its response. For current political considerations, what deals a blow to the reputation of the entire Dutch judicial system.
It is noteworthy that the “Boeing” of Malaysia Airlines was shot down over eastern Ukraine in July 2014 while it was flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur, and the disaster resulted in the deaths of 298 people. The investigation team accused Russia of being involved in shooting down the plane, which Moscow categorically denied.
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