The plane detained in France takes off for India with 275 passengers on board

The plane got stuck France since last Thursday took off this Monday towards Dubai It is Bombay (India) carrying on board around 275 passengers of Indian nationality out of the 303 who arrived from Dubaireported the airline’s lawyer.

The device took off shortly after 13:30 GMT, authorities said, meaning it has been blocked for four days. Your initial destination is Dubaiso that some passengers can disembark there, before completing the trip in Bombay.

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Most of the fifty passengers who refused to return and travel to Nicaraguaflight’s original destination, were finally convinced by a diplomat at the Indian embassy in Paris and the French authorities.

About 26 passengers decided to stay and seek asylum in Franceincluding five of the eleven unaccompanied minors traveling on the plane.

The two passengers detained for alleged relationship with a human trafficking, were placed freedom by a judge and received the status of protected witnessesinformed EFE of the Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office.

He Airbus A340 from the Romanian charter company Legend Airlines arrived at the airport on Thursday Vatry (about 140 kilometers from Paris) for a technical stopover on your route Dubai for Managua and since then he has been detained by the French authorities, who 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 don’t want to go back to India”, declared to the channel BFM the company’s lawyer in France Legend Airlines, Liliana Bakayoko.

Bakayoko explained that the flight was scheduled for Bombay (India) because the country from which the plane departed, United Arab Emirates“did not accept the return to his territory”. Later a home stop was added Dubai.

On Sunday afternoon, the French court authorized the return of the plane after determining that the retention of passengers at the airport since Thursday did not respect the country’s legal procedures.

French authorities were considering the hypothesis that the passengers could be Indian workers in United Arab Emirates who try to join the flow of immigrants from various continents seeking to reach U.S any Canada along the route of Central America.

Source: Elcomercio

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