Frankrike kräver svar varför judiska passagerare togs av flygplan (2025-07-23)

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One passenger called Damien, who was at the front of the plane and not part of the young group, told Europe 1 radio that the children had been "very calm, especially for teenagers... there was one who called to his friend for two seconds but everything was perfectly fine".

REVELATION: In the aviation world, transparency is a core principle — especially since the attacks of September 11, 2001.

It is therefore legitimate to investigate the entire cabin crew of
@vueling
flight VY8166, who, according to numerous eyewitness accounts, behaved with particular hostility toward the Jewish children from the summer camp.

Here are their names:
•Monica Iglesias 🇪🇸: Cabin Manager
•Javier Sisternas 🇪🇸: Flight Attendant
•Ana Rogel 🇪🇸: Flight Attendant
•Ander Abasolo 🇪🇸: Flight Attendant

🚨🚨✈️ VUELING INVESTIGATION: I consulted commercial airline pilots, and they are unanimous, the second statement issued by
@vueling
regarding flight VY8166 is technically incoherent and factually false.

The airline accused the Jewish children of:

– tampering with the oxygen masks,
– removing a high-pressure oxygen bottle,
– attempting to release the life vests.

❌ Yet these accusations are virtually impossible to carry out on such an aircraft:

📌 On an Airbus A320-200, oxygen masks are stored in hermetically sealed compartments above the seats. They only deploy in case of decompression, either automatically or if triggered by the pilot from the cockpit. In rare cases of technical malfunction, a specific tool held by the cabin crew may be used 🔧

📌 At the rear of an A320-200, oxygen bottles are stored in the galley (kitchen area), locked in secured racks accessible only to crew members.

📌 Life vests, located under the seats, are wrapped, sealed, and plastic-coated. Any attempt to open or tamper with them would have triggered a maintenance intervention, likely grounding the aircraft far longer than the 2h39 delay that was recorded — a delay already worsened by the intervention of the Guardia Civil, the forced disembarkation of 50 passengers, and the removal of their baggage.

🦺 By piling on unverifiable technical details, Vueling exposed its own contradictions.

⚠️ Further proof that Vueling’s account doesn’t hold up: the airline claims these events occurred during the safety demonstration, which is only conducted once all passengers are seated and buckled, as verified by the cabin crew.
Yet according to the testimony I obtained from Damien (a neutral passenger), during each of the three interruptions, there was total confusion, because everyone was already seated. No one was standing. No one could have accessed the ceiling or the rear galley.

✅ In reality: one child simply shouted the word “Limot” (“The days” in Hebrew), attempting, unsuccessfully, to start a summer camp song from the Birkat Hamazon (a Jewish blessing recited after a bread-based meal).
He was immediately corrected, calm returned, but the crew had already found its pretext to expel these Jewish children.

📑 Worth noting: in its first statement, Vueling never mentioned any investigation. Only in this second release, under growing public pressure, does the airline now claim it is “continuing an investigation” — one that, in truth, never even began…

⭕️ BOTTOM LINE:
@vueling
is lying brazenly and blatantly.

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