Flowers, paper planes with pictures of MH17 victims laid outside Dutch Embassy in Moscow
MOSCOW. July 17 (Interfax) - An event to commemorate the victims of a Malaysian Boeing shot down in Ukraine a year ago has begun outside the Dutch Embassy in central Moscow.
Several dozen people came to the diplomatic mission's building in Kalashny Pereulok at 5:20 p.m. to lay flowers outside the embassy's walls, as well as paper planes, each bearing a picture of a passenger and a crew member of the doomed plane, their name and age, an Interfax correspondent reported.
The event is covered by several dozen media outlets; a police van is on standby near the embassy, several OMON (police special forces) members and officers from other police units are watching without interfering. Occasionally, police or embassy security officers ask people to step off the narrow road to let the traffic through.
Later police had to remove a troublemaker from the venue, the Interfax correspondent reported.
Several young people turned up during the event commemorating the victims of the Malaysian Airlines' Boeing crash in Donbas a year ago, and started handing out some brochures.
Organizers asked the young people to leave and when these refused, activists asked the police to step in. One of the young people with brochures was put into a police van.
The event continues.