The manager of the leisure center, located in Porté-Puymorens, in the south of the Pyrénées-Orientales department, “told his interlocutors to refuse access to his establishment due to personal convictions’“, Inform the prosecution.
The group of 150 Israeli vacationers, all minors, aged 8 to 16, on vacation in Spain, has been refused “While a reservation had been made for a long time“.
Unknown to justice and “not subject to poor information“, The 52 -year -old manager was placed in police custody for”discrimination based on religion as part of the offer or provision of a property or service“Said the prosecution, recalling that this offense is”punished with a maximum sentence of three years’ imprisonment“.
The group of Israeli vacationers, “changed its schedule and went, aboard three buses, to another site in France, whose security is ensured by the gendarmerie, without the slightest incident at this moment“Said the prosecution to AFP at the end of the day.
A “flagrance survey” was entrusted to the research brigade of the town of Prades.