{"id":122947,"date":"2025-08-01T17:00:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-01T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=122947"},"modified":"2025-08-01T10:34:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T08:34:09","slug":"01-00-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=122947","title":{"rendered":"France, Spain Locked in Diplomatic Dispute Over Removal of French Jewish Teenagers From Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>France, Spain Locked in Diplomatic Dispute Over Removal of French Jewish Teenagers From Flight<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Ailin Vilches Arguello<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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A Vueling aircraft approaches landing at Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport, as Vueling employees prepare for strike, in Barcelona, Spain, Nov. 2, 2022. Photo: REUTERS\/Nacho Doce<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The forced removal of French Jewish teenagers from a flight in Spain has triggered political outrage in France,\u00a0after their group leader was handcuffed by Spanish police<\/a>\u00a0and a government minister insulted the teens as \u201cIsraeli brats.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

French ministers Aurore Berg\u00e9 and Benjamin Haddad have sharply criticized Spanish Transport Minister \u00d3scar Puente\u2019s comments and denounced the Spanish government\u2019s overall response to the incident.<\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier this week, Puente referred to the group of teenagers as \u201cIsraeli brats\u201d in a post on X, which he quickly deleted after it went viral and sparked widespread condemnation.<\/span><\/p>\n

The French ministers issued a strong rebuke of the remarks for \u201cequating French children who were Jewish with Israeli citizens, as if this in any way justified the treatment they were subjected to.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAt a time when\u00a0antisemitic acts have been on the rise across Europe<\/a>\u00a0since the terrorist attacks carried out by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023, in Israel, we call on Vueling [the airline of the flight in question] and the Spanish authorities to fully investigate and clarify the events,\u201d Berg\u00e9 and Haddad said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe will never accept the normalization of antisemitism. We will always stand with our fellow citizens who suffer from antisemitic hatred, and we will never compromise,\u201d the French officials continued.<\/span><\/p>\n

Last week, a group of 50 French Jewish students was\u00a0forcibly removed from a plane<\/a>\u00a0in Valencia \u2014 reportedly for singing in Hebrew \u2014 an incident that resulted in the arrest of their summer camp director, who has accused Spanish law enforcement officers of using excessive force against her.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to her lawyer, she was left with bruises on her legs, arms, and body after being harshly handcuffed and placed in an arm lock.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cNo action justified the disembarkation or the excessive and brutal use of force by the Civil Guard against the young woman, who has just been notified of 15 days of total incapacity to work,\u201d Berg\u00e9 and Haddad said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Spanish low-cost airline Vueling denied the allegations, insisting the incident was not related to religion but rather that the group was causing a disruption.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a statement, the airline asserted that the group was removed because of its members\u2019 \u201chighly combative attitude that was putting the safety of the flight at risk.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

After meeting with the group\u2019s counselor on Tuesday, Berg\u00e9 and Haddad said she denied the official version of events, emphasizing that the crew was hostile from the beginning and that the group\u2019s removal and the Civil Guard\u2019s response were unjustified.<\/span><\/p>\n

The children, aged 10 to 15, are members of the Kineret Club \u2014 a summer camp for Jewish families run by the Matana charitable association \u2014 which had just concluded their trip in the coastal resort town of Sant Carles de la R\u00e0pita, between Valencia and Barcelona.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to local reports, the children were singing in Hebrew while boarding the plane to return home, which prompted a hostile response from the crew.<\/span><\/p>\n

Witnesses reported that the group stopped singing at the crew\u2019s request and complied quietly with boarding instructions, yet airport police still intervened and ordered them to disembark.<\/span><\/p>\n

Other passengers on the plane who witnessed the incident reported that staff made antisemitic remarks toward the group, including one employee who allegedly referred to Israel as a \u201cterrorist state.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Last week, amid an ongoing investigation into the incident, French authorities reached out to the CEO of Vueling and the Spanish ambassador to France to assess whether the group was subjected to religious discrimination.<\/span><\/p>\n

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France, Spain Locked in Diplomatic Dispute Over Removal of French Jewish Teenagers From Flight Ailin Vilches Arguello A Vueling aircraft approaches landing at Josep Tarradellas Barcelona-El Prat Airport, as Vueling employees prepare for strike, in Barcelona, Spain, Nov. 2, 2022. Photo: REUTERS\/Nacho Doce The forced removal of French Jewish teenagers from a flight in Spain […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122947"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":122971,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122947\/revisions\/122971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}