Digital detectives investigate MH17 crash

Ole Tangen Jr.

A group of citizen journalists have conducted their own investigation into what brought down MH17. The evidence they've uncovered online and on social media points to Russian missiles being behind the crash. DW examines.

Niederlande Rekonstruktion MH17 — Image: Reuters/M. Kooren

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