THE HAGUE: A Dutch expert helping to identify victims from last year’s MH17 airliner crash in Ukraine has been fired after showing photographs of the dead at a public lecture, the government said Thursday.
“The collaboration with George Maat has been terminated,” Justice Minister Ard van der Steur told lawmakers in parliament.
The minister had earlier described the lecture given by Maat, an anthropologist at Leiden University, in the southern city of Maastricht as “completely inappropriate and in bad taste”.
Journalists from private television channel RTL Nieuws attended and first reported on the lecture, which was organised by a medical students association, …read more
Source: theSun
