Mother of a German woman killed in MH17 plane crash sues Ukranian authorities in the European Court of Human Rights

The mother of a German woman killed when Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was downed over eastern Ukraine in July is suing authorities in Ukraine in the European Court of Human Rights for failing to close their airspace, a German newspaper has reported.

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The mother of the victim, was seeking $US1 million in compensation from Kiev for manslaughter by negligence, Bild am Sonntag newspaper said on Sunday.

According to the indictment, Ukraine should have closed its airspace to civil air traffic because of fighting with pro-Russian separatists.

It accuses Ukraine of failing to do so because it wanted to continue to profit from the fees paid by transit flights, which at the time numbered 700 per day and would have earned it several million dollars a month, the newspaper reported.

This is an extract of the report published in the online edition of the Canberra Times.