The manager of a leisure park located in Porté-Puymorens, in the south of the Pyrénées-Orientales, was placed in police custody for “discrimination based on religion” after refusing access to a group of 150 young Israeli vacationers, Thursday August 21, learned the France-Presse agency (AFP) from the Perpignan prosecution.
The manager of the leisure center “Told his interlocutors to refuse access to his establishment due to” personal convictions “”reported the prosecution. The group of 150 Israeli minors (aged 8 to 16), on vacation in Spain, was refused “While a reservation had been made for a long time”.
Unknown to justice and “Not being the subject of poor information”the manager, 52 years old, was placed in police custody for “discrimination based on religion as part of the offer or the supply of a property or service,” said the prosecution, recalling that this offense is “Punished with a maximum sentence of three years’ imprisonment”.
The Israeli vacation group “Has 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 that moment”said the prosecution to AFP at the end of the day.
A “Flagrance investigation” was entrusted to the research brigade of the town of Prades.