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- worldnews@lemmy.ml
Russia has informed Brazil’s aircraft investigation authority that it will not probe the crash of the Brazilian-made Embraer jet that killed mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin under international rules “at the moment.”
I know this is a cynical, unhelpful reaction, but here it is anyway: Who cares? A war criminal who’s effectively a dictator killed another war criminal an his buddies. So what.
It was a small private plane, not one full of civilians. The pilot’s widow is suffering more than anyone else here, but a corrupt, dishonest “investigation” wouldn’t do her any good anyway. If she makes too much noise or tries to go after the people responsible, she’ll mysteriously “fall” out a window.
This is unjust, but it’s also par for the course when you’re dealing with a scumbag like Putin.
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Edit: The story above doesn’t give any info on the pilot. Here’s where I found it https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/24/europe/prigozhin-wagner-russia-plane-crash-explainer-intl-hnk/index.html