Normal search can not, that’s frustrating ‘- Telegraaf.nl

Normal search can not, that's frustrating '- Telegraaf.nl

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“We can not at the scene as well do our work as a normal scene. The threat to us and the situation that we are forced to retreat, we make the task more difficult for us. We can not work optimally. “

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That concludes Gerry Burger (38), one of the members of the repatriation team in an interview with the ANP. Tuesday she was still at the scene and works for the National Forensic Investigation Team (LTFO). The search teams have under her burden of the impending war.

“We do not like in the Netherlands all the time to search. Off every 30 inches I can not. We need a certain speed. The ability to search here can be so because, again, “she explains. “We need to pull back when we hear something in the background.”

“For LTFO-people this is difficult because we are very punctual. Now we need to let go of things, “emphasizes Burger. “It’s such a large area, we get under these circumstances never 100 percent closed. That makes it frustrating. “

Yet Burger and her team the will to do the job. Together with her colleagues from the LTFO and state police Tuesday she was looking for more remains of victims and also stuff that link directly to victims who were aboard.

These are things that can contribute to the identification of victims and clearly may have dependents, such as passports and photographs. value “This type of goods have priority. Other stuff later. Therefore, they are nonetheless

search teams exchange at the scene. “. Now also the Malays arrived to help. Burger has so far not worked with them.

Well her team Tuesday collaborated with Australian colleagues. Who took care of the card reading and brought accurately map what had already been searched.

The search teams are apart of sniffer dogs, divers and sonar, also using satellite imagery. Partly based on the information that comes up here, targeted search.

“It’s all very impressive. This does not often make it, “says Burger. “I have the impression that we are very anxious. We do have a healthy tension and be alert. We are well-focused. “

The team members keep each other in the eye and there is a team for spiritual guidance. Present After two days of searching, the group may return to a day and a half in Kharkov hotel to freshen up and rest.

“We have a kind of buddy system. We then talk about what we have seen how we feel. We have for example when LTFO more experience with dealing with body parts like the average trooper, “says Burger. “If we find that someone has the difficult, we recommend to those here just to talk to someone. We do not have a macho culture, which counsel is sometimes followed here. In the evening of the second day of rest we leave for search area. Then we are back at it the next day “

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