VARIOUS: RUSSIAN MAN IS HELD OVER KILLING OF SWISS AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER WHO WAS ON DUTY WHEN AIR COLLISION KILLED 71 INCLUDING 50 RUSSIANS

Record ID: 318835

  • Title: VARIOUS: RUSSIAN MAN IS HELD OVER KILLING OF SWISS AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER WHO WAS ON DUTY WHEN AIR COLLISION KILLED 71 INCLUDING 50 RUSSIANS
  • Date: 29th February 2004
  • Summary: (U6) VLADIKAVKAZ, RUSSIA (FEBRUARY 29, 2004) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. WIDE OF MONUMENT ON THE GRAVE OF VITALY KALOYEV'S FAMILY AT THE CEMETERY IN VLADIKAVAKAZ 0.05 2. CLOSE OF PHOTOGRAPH OF VITALY KALOYEV'S DAUGHTER DIANA ON THE MONUMENT 0.09 3. CLOSE OF PHOTOGRAPH OF VITALY KALOYEV'S WIFE SVETLANA ON THE MONUMENT 0.13 4. CLOSE OF
  • Embargoed: 15th March 2004 12:00
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  • Location: RUSSIA/TAISERDORF,GERMANY/ZURICH,SWITZERLAND
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  • Country: Switzerland Germany Russia
  • Reuters ID: LVA33F7UUN1EH48Z1QQOPFVZ7RL8
  • Story Text: Russian held over Zurich air controller's death.




    Officials on Monday (March 1) said a Russian man,
    Vitaly Kaloyev, who lost his wife and children in an air
    disaster, is being held by Swiss police over the killing of
    the air traffic controller on duty the night of the crash.

    A spokesman for the Russian embassy in Berne said Swiss
    police had confirmed Kaloyev's identity to them after
    arresting him on Wednesday, a day after the Danish-born
    flight controller was stabbed to death outside his home.

    Police have said that Kaloyev denies the charge.

    Police had declined to officially identify the suspect
    other than to say the 48-year-old had lost his wife, son
    and daughter in the air crash over Ueberlingen in southern
    Germany in July 2002 in which a Russian charter collided
    with a cargo plane.

    In total 71 people, including more than 50 Russian
    children, died in the crash.

    Records show Kaloyev's wife Svetlana perished along
    with their 10-year-old son Konstantin and four-year-old
    daughter Diana.

    Swiss police on Monday declined to confirm the
    suspect's identity while the Zurich prosecutor Pascal
    Gossner was not immediately available for comment.



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