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Families of Flight PS752 denounce RCMP for not launching domestic criminal probe

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Families of those who died aboard Flight PS752 say they left a meeting with RCMP Commissioner Brenda Lucki this week disappointed and frustrated that, 17 months after the shootdown, the Mounties have not accepted Ukraine’s offer to establish a joint investigative team or launch its own criminal investigation in Canada.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps shot down the commercial aircraft on Jan. 8, 2020, killing all 176 people onboard, including 55 Canadians and 35 permanent residents.

The families say Lucki told them that the case is too difficult and complex to investigate on Canadian soil since only Iran has access to the evidence gathered from the

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This story was originally published on  CBC News. To read the rest of this news worthy story, please visit https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/flight-ps752-criminal-investigation-canada-1.6061526?cmp=rss.

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