Presiding judge Hendrik Steenhuis, center, judges Dagmar Koster, second left, Heleen Kerstens-Fockens, second right, Daan Glass, left, and Edith Poppe-Gielesen, right, are seen at the start of the trial of four men charged with murder over the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight 17, at Schiphol airport, near Amsterdam, Netherlands, Monday, March 9, 2020. A missile fired from territory controlled by pro-Russian rebels in Ukraine in 2014, tore the MH17 passenger jet apart kill…
March 9, 2020
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Dutch trial opens for 4 suspects in downing of flight MH17
SCHIPHOL, Netherlands (AP) — As the trial of three Russians and a Ukrainian charged with multiple counts of murder for their alleged involvement in the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 got underway Monday, a Dutch prosecutor solemnly read out the names of all 298 people killed in the attack.