The plane held in France since last Thursday (12/21/23) took off this Monday heading to dubai and Bombay (India) carrying on board approximately 275 passengers of Indian nationality of the 303 who arrived from Dubai, reported the legal area of the Romanian company Legend Airlines.
The plane, which was blocked for four days, has its initial destination in Dubai, so that some passengers can disembark there, before concluding its journey in Bombay. A good part of the passengers who refused to return and travel to Nicaragua, the original destination of the flight, were finally convinced by a diplomat from the Indian embassy in Paris and by the French authorities.
Approximately 26 passengers have decided to stay and request asylum in France, including five of the eleven unaccompanied minors who were traveling on the plane.
The two passengers who had been detained for their alleged relationship with human trafficking have been released by a judge and have received the status of protected witnesses, the Paris Prosecutor’s Office informed EFE.
Why was the plane detained in France?
He Airbus A340 of Legend Airlines He arrived on Thursday at Vatry airport (about 140 kilometers from Paris) for a technical stopover on his route from Dubai to Managua and since then he has been detained by the French authorities, who had received an anonymous communication about a possible case of human trafficking. .
The French authorities had initially planned for the plane to take off at 09:00 GMT this Monday, but the flight was successively delayed because around fifty passengers refused to return to their country and insisted on maintaining the contracted trip, a tourist trip to Nicaragua.
“Some passengers do not want to return to India”the lawyer in France for the Legend Airlines company told the BFM channel, Liliana Bakayoko.
On Sunday afternoon, French justice gave its authorization for the plane to return after determining that the retention of passengers at the airport since Thursday had not respected the legal procedures of this country.
The French authorities were considering the hypothesis that the passengers could be Indian workers in United Arab Emirates (UAE) who try to join the flow of immigrants from various continents who seek to reach USA either Canada along the Central American route.
Source: Gestion
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