In the November 25 session of the MH17 trial at Schiphol - the final one for this year — presiding judge Hendrik Steenhuis ruled
to accept only those investigations requested by the defence lawyers which are certain to incriminate Lieutenant Colonel Oleg Pulatov. Pulatov is the only one of the four accused to present a defence to the Dutch indictment for destruction of the aircraft and the murder of all 298 passengers and crew on board.
Accepting the state prosecution's advice
to reject the defence lawyers' attempts to probe evidence for alternative scenarios of the shooting-down of the Malaysian Airlines aircraft on July 17, 2014, Steenhuis said: "if the main scenario cannot be proved" - the prosecution's case that the Russian military command sent a BUK missile into eastern Ukraine where the four accused fired it - "then that leads automatically to the verdict of not guilty".
Steenhuis announced he is ready to accept all the self-incrimination Pulatov's lawyers have already presented from their client. But he insisted that if Pulatov wishes to testify to the court, that must be done in a live interrogation by the court and cross-examination by prosecutors -
a condition Steenhuis has disallowed for any other witness in the case.Steenhuis also ruled to accept the defence lawyers' request to interview the commander of the Russian Army's 53
rd Anti-Aircraft Missile Brigade on the same terms. Steenhuis has previously refused to allow any evidence or testimony from Russian Army Major General Igor Konashenkov on Ukrainian deployment of BUK missiles, including the one identified by prosecutors as having caused the destruction of the aircraft. The evidence against the 53
rd Brigade was fabricated by a NATO propaganda unit; until now
it would not have been admissible in the court trial if the defence lawyers had not applied to interview the brigade commander, Colonel Sergei Muchkayev.
Comment: To the evictor go the spoils. There is no question Neti is racing against time to achieve his goals, especially while the US election fraud is sucking the air off the planet. Coincidental? Perhaps, but the gargantuan distraction is proving damn useful! Never forget - Israel gifted us 9/11.