Two Dutch journalists slammed MH17 investigation, saying that many pieces were still at the site where the Malaysian plane crashed in eastern Ukraine.
Just days ago, Michel Spekkers and Stefan Beck returned to Holland from eastern Ukraine where the two journalists had been gathering first-hand knowledge of the locals’ attitudes towards Moscow and Kiev, as well as preparing a report on the political situation in the troubled region.
“Our main objective was there to talk with people and to find out what people really thought about the area and about their lives,” Beck told RT.
While Beck was taking interviews in Donetsk on the last day, Spekkers traveled to the crash site of the ill-fated MH 17 flight. He was quite surprised to discover “a lot of pieces still lying around,” with some stored in “sheds” by locals, according to Beck.
“That materials have never been collected and the Dutch public prosecuting service claims that the area is too dangerous to go to. But the city of Donetsk is rather quiet when it comes to shelling to that kind of stuff. The argument doesn’t hold, especially because the area where the plane crashed is even farther away than Donetsk itself is, so there’s some incorrectness with what the Dutch public prosecution service claims there,” Beck told RT.
Beck said in an earlier statement that Spekkers had taken some fragments with him, including “possible human remains.” He stressed that, while he did not necessarily approve of this, he respected what his fellow journalist had done, since the possible remains would otherwise “weather away.”
The journalists’ trip was not veiled in secrecy, as they had been tweeting about collecting the fragments at the site and agreed to hand over what they had found to Dutch authorities upon their return.
“The material that Michel Spekkers has collected at the crash site, we already were warned beforehand by the Dutch authorities that they would really like to take a look at it. And we had not completely agreed on doing that, but we would go for a talk with Dutch authorities,” Beck told RT.
“Dutch authorities of course claim it is legal to take these pieces from us. We had an initial intention to hand them over in any case. But we did want to prevent that these pieces would end up in a research [that] would take a very long time,” Beck said, noting that “it is very important that this material is shown” to the public.
Source: RT
