AMSTERDAM (Bernama): Almost six years after Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was blown out of the sky over eastern Ukraine, criminal proceedings against four men accused of shooting down the plane, will finally commence here on Monday (March 9).
The spotlight will be on the Schiphol Judicial Complex in Badhoevedorp, where the trial before the District Court of The Hague is scheduled to take place.
The trial at the Dutch court is taking place amid the global Covid-19 outbreak, with the Netherlands recording 128 confirmed cases as well as its first death yesterday - this was a spike from 82 cases recorded until Thursday. "...But right now, it’s business as usual. The case will proceed as planned,” she said of the trial over the downing of the Malaysian Boeing 777 aircraft en route to Kuala Lumpur from Amsterdam on July 17, 2014.
They are not expected to be present when the trial gets underway on Monday following what has been billed as the largest criminal investigation in Dutch history.
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