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Belarus Scrambles MiG-29 to Divert Ryanair Flight to Arrest Opposition Leader
A Ryanair plane flying from Greece to Lithuania was diverted to Belarus, with the country's opposition figures saying it was done so dissident journalist Roman Protasevich could be arrested. Flight FR4978 was en route from Athens to Vilnius on Sunday when it turned east to Belarus's capital Minsk shortly before it reached the Lithuania border. In a statement, Ryanair said the crew were "notified by Belarus Air Traffic Control of a potential security threat on board and were… (www.bbc.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
This action cannot be tolerated. International air travel must be kept out of politics. This was an act of terrorism out and out. The west needs to levy heavy sanctions on Belarus and the Russians. You can be assured that if they got away with it once they will do it again and again until severe action is taken. This is all they understand.
Curious as to how the Ukrainian government knew he was even on this aircraft, the airlines are not in the habit of publishing there passenger list Whole thing sounds a bit premeditated to me.
Could someone please explain to me how this case is different from the incident in with Evo Morales'plane in the hunt for Snowden.
Are the cases really different, or is Europe and USA just being full with hypocrisy? No one sanctioned any country back in the day.
Are the cases really different, or is Europe and USA just being full with hypocrisy? No one sanctioned any country back in the day.
Exactly!
The outrage by the E.U. is all well and good, but where was that outrage when the plane diverted was carrying Edward Snowden and the request came from the U.S.?
And no European country would offer asylum to Snowden.
Please don't tell me it's different only because one was a private plane and the other a commercial flight. Irrelevant.
It's one thing to put threaten sanctions against Belarus, another against the U.S. There's a huge amount of hypocrisy from the E.U. and the U.S.
The outrage by the E.U. is all well and good, but where was that outrage when the plane diverted was carrying Edward Snowden and the request came from the U.S.?
And no European country would offer asylum to Snowden.
Please don't tell me it's different only because one was a private plane and the other a commercial flight. Irrelevant.
It's one thing to put threaten sanctions against Belarus, another against the U.S. There's a huge amount of hypocrisy from the E.U. and the U.S.
This is out and out air piracy. They will get away with it because nobody around will stop them. I remember back at a time when the U.S. would have stood up to BULLIES but alas that time is over. If erisajd is right the UN has gotten to soft also the world is changing.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/lithuania-trying-identify-those-who-left-ryanair-flight-minsk-2021-05-28/
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/lithuania-trying-identify-those-who-left-ryanair-flight-minsk-2021-05-28/
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/ryanair-says-belarus-refused-pilots-request-contact-airline-2021-05-28/
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/lithuania-trying-identify-those-who-left-ryanair-flight-minsk-2021-05-28/
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/ryanair-says-belarus-refused-pilots-request-contact-airline-2021-05-28/