2023-12-25 09:22:40
Their wait will finally end. Indian passengers confined for more than three days in an airport in Marne, against a backdrop of suspicions of human trafficking around which uncertainty remains, should leave this Monday morning for India, according to the French authorities.
The Paris prosecutor’s office told AFP on Sunday that justice had authorized the plane to leave, a decision which “allows us to consider the rerouting of passengers placed in the waiting zone” in the airport, the court then announced. prefecture in a press release. The authorities are “trying to obtain the necessary authorizations for the plane to take off again,” which arrived in France with 303 passengers, “which should take place no later than Monday morning,” she added. Around 10 a.m., depending on RTL which quotes the lawyer of the Romanian airline Legend Airlines. In particular, it is necessary to obtain overflight authorizations from certain countries.
VIDEO. Immobilized for 3 days in the Marne for suspicion of human trafficking, the plane will be able to leave
The aircraft and its passengers would return “towards India”, declared the president of Châlons-en-Champagne François Procureur during a press briefing, information which he said he had from state lawyers. A rapid departure of these Indians, two of whom are still in police custody, is all the more likely as the courts canceled on Sunday, for three of them, the procedure of being held for three days in the airport hall. . Customs subsequently waived the procedure for the other passengers. Twelve asylum requests were also filed, a source close to the case said on Sunday evening.
Uncertainty still hangs over the matter
It appears in particular, according to an order from a judge of freedoms and detention (JLD) consulted by AFP, that the passengers were held for several hours “without knowing the reasons” at the start of the procedure and without being informed of their rights “within a reasonable time”, which constitutes “a disproportionate attack on human rights”.
Several JLDs were mobilized on Sunday for a major operation on Christmas Eve in a building adjacent to the terminal, in order to decide on the retention of these passengers, including 11 minors, in the waiting area. unaccompanied.
The Airbus A340 of these 303 Indians, which was flying between Dubai (United Arab Emirates) and Managua, capital of Nicaragua, landed on Thursday afternoon in Vatry, 150 km from Paris, to refuel. But this simple technical stopover turned into a long immobilization after an “anonymous report” according to which passengers were “likely to be victims of human trafficking” in an organized gang, the Paris prosecutor’s office told AFP on Friday .
According to a source close to the matter, these Indians, probably workers in the United Arab Emirates, could have planned to go to Central America in order to then try to enter illegally into the United States or Canada. Two police custody cases started on Friday were still in progress on Sunday, the Paris prosecutor’s office told AFP. They aim to “verify” whether the role of these two people “could have been different from that of the others”.
“We are in a matter that can be very serious but at the moment we are still in a bit of uncertainty,” Patrick Baudouin, president of the LDH, emphasized on BFMTV. “Was it a monumental error that was committed, a denunciation which ultimately turned out to be totally inappropriate, or is there a real offense, a crime behind all of this? “, he asked.
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