The deadly 1996 plane attack at the centre of Castro's indictment
The BBC has compiled the details of the 1996 attack on civilian aircraft that lies at the centre of the US indictment against former Cuban leader Raúl Castro. Two Cessna planes belonging to the Brothers to the Rescue group were shot down off the Florida Strait, killing four people, all US citizens.
BBC Latin America has set out the details of the 24 February 1996 incident that underpins the case brought by US federal prosecutors. That day, two civilian Cessna planes belonging to the Brothers to the Rescue group, which searched the waters between Florida and Cuba for migrants, were shot down in international airspace by MiG fighters of the Cuban air force.
All four people killed in the attack were US citizens. An International Civil Aviation Organization investigation concluded that the location where the aircraft were downed lay outside Cuban territorial waters; Havana said at the time the action was part of protecting Cuban sovereignty.
According to federal prosecutors, Raúl Castro, then defence minister, was in the chain of command, and this authorisation is the central argument of the new indictment. Cuba's foreign ministry has described the indictment as a political show, while the US Justice Department says the case rests on the ICAO findings.
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