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Dutch must know MH17 missile site to prosecute
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DUTCH prosecutors said yesterday they need to know where a missile that may have shot down flight MH17 was fired from in eastern Ukraine before criminal charges could be laid.
“When we know from where it was fired, then we can find out who controlled that area,” and possibly prosecute, Dutch chief investigator Fred Westerbeke said in Rotterdam.
“The most likely scenario was that the plane was shot down from the ground,” he said.
Dutch authorities have taken the lead in the criminal probe into what brought down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over conflict-torn Ukraine on July 17, killing all 298 on board, most of them Dutch.
Westerbeke said that they had not yet obtained US satellite photos of areas from which a missile might have been launched.
“We will get them,” Westerbeke said, adding that it was a “long process.”
An initial report by a Dutch air safety probe into the crash released on Tuesday said that the plane was struck by numerous “high-energy objects.”
The report ruled out pilot error or mechanical failure, leaving shooting down from the ground or from the air as well as a terrorist bombing as the only other scenarios.
Kiev and the West have accused separatists of shooting it down with a surface-to-air BUK missile supplied by Moscow.
However, Moscow and the rebels deny this and point the finger at Kiev instead.
Privileging the missile strike theory, investigators are examining “around 25” pieces of metal found in some of the bodies, said Patricia Zorko of the Dutch national police.
“Now we need to find out if they come from inside the plane or is this something that came from outside the plane,” Zorko told journalists.
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