Vueling persists and signs. The Spanish airline is camping on its positions in a new press release published this Monday evening, still in connection with the affair of adolescents presenting themselves as a Jewish confession expelled from a Valence-Paris flight before takeoff on Wednesday, July 23.
While a punch action was carried out on Sunday evening by a collective to fight anti -Semitism in front of the Vueling stand at Orly airport, the Spanish group has remained faithful to its version displayed since the start of the controversy.
“During the Vy8166 flight, a group of adolescents aged 12 to 22 adopted conflicting behavior – including attempts to release life jackets, handle oxygen masks on the ceiling and remove a high pressure oxygen bottle – as well as an attitude of confrontation,” reaffirms the airline to justify the landing of young participants. “After analyzing the situation, the group was landed to guarantee the security of the rest of the passengers,” read.
New testimonies against those of other passengers
A novelty however: Vueling reveals this Monday evening that it “collected testimonies of passengers present aboard the flight”. The latter “described the facts that have occurred and their stories agree with those of the Guardia Civil and the Company”, going against those of other passengers, including Damien, who had entrusted the Parisian last week in the face of the situation. “I did not hear any noise or cries,” he said to us, “assuring that all the members of the colony had remained calm. No one really understood what was going on. ”
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“Some of these (witnesses) have expressed the wish to remain anonymous, in order to protect their privacy and their security, but said they were willing to share their testimonies with the competent authorities,” said Vueling.
A “fluid dialogue” with the French authorities
The air carrier also declares that he had maintained a “fluid dialogue with the institutions and authorities of Spain and France”, two days after Jean-Noël Barrot, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Emmanuel Macron, called the CEO of the Company to claim “elements of explanation”.
In conclusion of its press release, Vueling “firmly condemns the disclosure, on social networks by third parties, of the identity of the members of the crew who operated the theft, who acted for the sole purpose of guaranteeing the security of theft and passengers on board”.
As a reminder, “Club Kineret”, the organization in charge of the Spanish stay of the summer camp, announced last Thursday the filing of a complaint against Vueling “for the treatment inflicted (in) group of children and its monitors”.