Over 50 Indian passengers flying Air France had a "harrowing" time at Paris airport after their aircraft developed a technical problem and complained on Tuesday on reaching Mumbai that they were victims of "racial" profiling.
The passengers, who spent 28 hours in Paris, said they were confined to a lounge at the airport there from 10 pm on Sunday till 7 am the next morning and given "hardly any food and water".
The passengers, on their way to Mumbai from the US via Paris, said while the foreigners were taken to hotels shortly after their plane returned to the Paris airport due to apparent technical problem following a four-hour flight, they were taken to the lounge and given just a bottle of water and a sandwich.
Giving details of their "harrowing" time, one of the travelers, Vineeta Sengupta said, "No foreigner would have been treated like the way we were treated. People were lying down on the floor over there (at a place at the airport) where immigration takes place".
Accusing Air France of "racial" profiling, a girl passenger said that the officials there even had threatened that they would be handed over to the police if they did not stop protesting.
Sengupta said the 53 to 54 Indian passengers were later "huddled out" of the airport on a "group visa", which the authorities could have provided much earlier, and taken to a hotel.
No reason has officially been given for the delay.
Report from Press Trust Of India.
I fail to understand why we as a Nation does not protest very very strongly and vehemently to incidents like these.We,our government, should tell the world in no uncertain terms that such behavior would not be tolerated 'at all'...
If we don't,these things will keep recurring...!
We are not anybody's slave..
The French government should be made to realize this and if they don't apologize for such shocking behavior,they should be paid back in the same coin,no other way..!!
To hell with diplomatic relationships,if our Countrymen are not treated fairly..
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