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French MH370 criminal investigation continues - 

It seems like the French are the only 'directly interested party' left that suspects and is investigating a criminal conspiracy in regards to the disappearance of MH370 - Vive La France...      

Via Le Parisien:

Disappearance of the MH370: the displacement of French investigators in the United States raises the hope of relatives

The Frenchman Ghyslain Wattrelos lost four relatives in the disappearance of flight MH370. AFP / Thomas Samson

Frenchman Ghyslain Wattrelos, who has lost four relatives, calls on the United States to cooperate further in the investigation. It also reveals that the track of a piracy of the signal of the plane is considered.

For relatives of Miss Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 , hope is reborn. The investigators in charge of the case hope to go soon to the United States where crucial investigations must be carried out, said Thursday Ghyslain Wattrelos who lost four relatives in the disaster.

On March 8, 2014, 239 people disappeared after taking off from Kuala Lumpur aboard a Boeing bound for Beijing. If some debris that seems to belong to it were recovered in the Indian Ocean, no trace of the 239 passengers has ever been found. Ghyslain Wattrelos lost his wife and two of his children in the disappearance of the plane.

On Thursday, he was received with his lawyer, Marie Dosé, by the investigating judge in charge of the judicial information opened in France, to take stock of the investigations and the tracks to explore by the investigators.

"It's time for the United States to cooperate"

Among the priorities that mobilize the investigators, a trip to the United States is "back on the agenda", after a trip aborted in September yet planned as part of an international rogatory commission launched in October 2017, have- they announced at a press conference Thursday.

According to Dosé, this move had to be canceled, as the US authorities had opposed "confidentiality clauses" and then the "industrial secret" of the manufacturer Boeing.

"We are a little angry and now we want to say stop, it is time that the United States really cooperate on this issue," responded Ghyslain Wattrelos.

"It is necessary to go there because there are three entities that hold important information to know what happened on this flight," he continued. Starting with Boeing and the FBI, even if the investigators seem to have obtained assurances from the intelligence agency that they could be received, he said.

A company suspected of piracy

But attention is now also focused on a third entity, a company uncovered by investigators. The challenge, according to Ghyslain Wattrelos, is whether it sells software capable of reprogramming or even hack the Satcom, the antenna that communicates to the Inmarsat satellite signal from the aircraft.

"The essential track is the Inmarsat data. Either they are false or they have been hacked, "he says. However, these satellite data are essential to better understand the trajectory of the aircraft.

The handing over of the Malaysian investigation report in July had showered Ghyslain Wattrelos' hopes, but since then French investigators have suggested new hypotheses to explore.

A passenger with a troubling profile

In particular, the investigators found "inconsistencies" in the Malaysian investigation's official report and the presence of "curious" passengers, on whom "we had to continue to investigate". Among them is a Malaysian traveler with a troubling profile: he was sitting under the Satcom case and proving to be an expert in aeronautics, according to Ghyslain Wattrelos and his lawyer.

"To go further, the investigators need the cooperation of the United States, England (for the Inmarsat satellite) and after they will need to return to Malaysia," continued Ghyslain Wattrelos.

In the investigations that remain to be conducted, "we must open the right doors and close the others," said Dosé, ensuring that "the judges do not want to stick to the obstacles that will come before them".

Here is a link and quote for Victor Iannello's blog piece response to the Le Parisien story: http://mh370.radiantphysics.com/2018/10/...nds-to-us/

...It’s not clear what additional information the French investigators expect to obtain while in the US. Boeing has cooperated with the Annex 13 investigation team, and is unlikely to provide private French investigators with data that has not already been made public. Meanwhile, the FBI is unlikely to release information on matters related to ongoing or past investigations.


The mysterious “third entity” referred to by Mr Wattrelos that might be selling software capable of maliciously altering SATCOM data is also unknown, although there are a handful of companies in the US and Canada that supply hardware and software for designing, building, and testing parts of the Inmarsat network.

Independent investigators that are studying this mystery are at an impasse. Although the overwhelming consensus is that MH370 did indeed crash in the Southern Indian Ocean, the considerable efforts of official and private
investigators have not succeeded in locating the debris field on the seabed. The data we have, notably the satellite data, is imprecise, so additional data is needed to reconstruct the trajectory of the plane.

There is always the chance that during Mr Wattrelos’ visit to the US, some new evidence or insights will be uncovered that help us to better understand the disappearance and to find the plane.

More likely, the existence of helpful new information will be found in Malaysia...

MTF...P2