MH17 victim's mum is suing Ukraine for $1m
The mother of a victim of the doomed flight MH17 is suing Ukraine for $1
million - for failing to close the country's airspace, reports Mirror.
The German victim named as "Olga L." was killed
when the plane was downed over eastern
She is seeking compensation from Kiev for manslaughter by negligence and has
begun proceedings in the past week, Bild am Sonntag newspaper said today.
According to the indictment, Ukraine should have closed its
airspace to civil air traffic because of fighting with pro-Russian separatists.
It accuses Ukraine
of failing to do so because it wanted to continue to profit from the fees paid
by transit flights - which at the time numbered 700 per day and would have
earned it several million dollars a month, the newspaper reported.
The victim's mother is represented by aviation lawyer Elmar
Giemulla who has argued that under international law Ukraine should have closed its air
space if it could not guarantee the safety of flights.
Giemulla said in September he was representing three
families of German victims of the crash.
The airliner crashed in Ukraine
in pro-Russian rebel-held territory on July 17, killing 298 people, two-thirds
of them from the Netherlands .
Four Germans died in the crash.
European governments have so far refrained from openly
attributing blame.
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