The Spanish low -cost company in the heart of an animated controversy. This Wednesday, July 23, a group of about fifty French adolescents, of Jewish confession, was landed by a miserable flight that connected Valencia, in Spain, in Paris.
• A complaint filed
Two versions compete after this incident. On the one hand, in a press release published on Thursday, the company justified this exclusion for “inappropriate behavior” and “a very conflictive attitude, which endangers the soft flight functioning” by children.
On the other hand, the association in charge of supervising the adolescents’ trip indicated a complaint for “physical, psychological and discrimination violence on the basis of religion.” She assures that the group did not have a problematic attitude.
• France requests explanations
France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barot called the CEO of Vueling Carolina Martinoli to ask for “elements of explanation”, sharing it from the strong emotion aroused by the landing of a group of young French Jews from a company plane. “
“The explanatory elements were requested, in particular to determine whether these compatriots had been discriminated against their confession,” said Quai d’Orsay.
The company’s CEO “assured him that a rigorous internal investigation was underway and that the conclusions of this investigation would be shared with the French and Spanish authorities,” he said.
• Anti -Semitism accusations
The Kineret club association in charge of the supervision provided, in a statement, “that no incident has been informed, without threat, no inappropriate behavior has been reported.” In BFMTV, one of the group’s lawyers, he said that “the only thing that arises in the testimonies is that a child at some point launched a shout, which is a scream of meeting.” “We are talking about a game,” said Murielle Ouknine-Melki.
“One of my friends shouted a little strong at the same time in Hebrew,” Samson, a young man from the colony, in BFMTV, abounded in the same direction.
“From that moment, suddenly, the staff on board came to see him telling him that if he began to shout again, they were going to call the police to get us out of the plane,” he continued, before adding: “Really five minutes later, we saw that the police arrived and quickly asked the nationality of the nationality.”
For the Kineret Association Club, organizer of the summer camp, “the only common element for the whole group is their religious visibility,” citing in particular that some children wore a Kipá or other Jewish symbols like a star of David.
“The use of some words in Hebrew obviously has enough to trigger an extremely gravity, collective, humiliating and discriminatory measure,” said Jacob Avocats, in charge of the association’s defense on July 24, adding: Add: Add: Add: Add: Add:
“No other circumstance can explain the treatment inflicted on this group of children.”
The Kineret Club Association lawyer said that several passengers present at the time of events “wrote writings that confirmed that children were not disorder at public order or flight safety.”
• Train points to an “incident that leads the flight to play” of the flight
In BFMTV, Damien, a witness who was present in this famous Valence-Paris flight, emphasized that he was “very surprised” for this landing. “In any case, I and the passengers to the side, we did not understand too much,” he said.
“From what I saw and listened, when you landed and approached, they arrived and outside a very polite way, really without screaming, with nothing,” he explained.
A version of the Airline contradiction. In a press release, Vueling indicates that “as with any incident that brings security”, it is the captain who was “obliged to request the intervention of the Spanish Police”, which, confirming the history of Vueling to AFP, proceeded to land the group “after the evaluation of the situation.”
According to José Jiménez Córdoba, director of Vueling flight operations, adolescents “adopted the behavior that probably endangers the safety of all passengers.” “They tried to handle emergency equipment: life jackets, oxygen masks, oxygen bottles …”, he said.
The airlines in rig denied the anti -Semitic nature of their speech in a press release. “We are a company composed of 60 nationalities, there is absolutely any place for discrimination,” said José Jiménez Córdoba.
For his part, in BFMTV, one of the lawyers of the summer camp said that the young people “were extremely shocked”, especially “having attended the floor of the floor and the particularly violent wife of their instructor”, in reference to a video filmed after the launch of the group’s plane.
“The company in Vueling has not been absolutely responsible for putting them on another flight, they were abandoned at the airport,” Murielle Ouknine-Melki also deplored me.
Source: BFM TV
