Spanish minister sparks anti-Semitism row with France after labelling dozens of French Jewish children 'Israeli brats' after they were kicked off flight in Valencia for 'unruly behaviour'
French government ministers Aurore Bergé and Benjamin Haddad have condemned Spain's transport minister Óscar Puente for his comments, as well as the actions of the Spanish police who handcuffed the group leader of the Jewish passengers.
Some 44 French-Jewish students aged between 10 and 15 and several adults were escorted off Vueling flight V8166 as it waited on the tarmac at Valencia airport on July 23 ahead of its return to Paris.
The holiday camp the children were flying with accused Vueling of 'brutality' and filed a complaint against the airline, who claimed the passengers had been endangering the safety of the flight with 'disruptive behaviour'.
Spanish law enforcement and the airline carrier have come under fire for alleged anti-Semitism in the wake of the incident - accusations which they have both vehemently rejected.
Footage shared to social media appeared to show one adult member of the group being detained by Spanish civil guard officers in the walkway shortly after she was removed from the jet.
The passengers were members of the Kineret Club, a Jewish summer camp group, and were returning to France after a week-long excursion in Spain.
The two French ministers, who have reportedly spoken to the female counsellor, said she had been signed off work for 15 days because of 'temporary incapacity'.
'No act justifies the disembarkation and the excessive and brutal use of force by the Guardia Civil against the young woman,' said Bergé and Haddad.
Transport minister Puente has since deleted his post describing the children as 'Israeli brats', but the French politicians condemned his statement for 'equating French children who were Jewish with Israeli citizens, as if this in any way justified the treatment they were subjected to'.
'We will never accept the trivialisation of anti-Semitism,' Bergé and Haddad added.
France's foreign minister, Jean-Noël Barrot, contacted Vueling's chief executive, Carolina Martinoli, over the weekend to express his 'deep concern' at what had happened.
A statement released by the club alleged that the captain of the flight ordered the removal of the group 'without a valid explanation', adding: 'The use of a few words in Hebrew was clearly enough to trigger an extremely serious, collective, humiliating, and discriminatory measure.
'No other circumstance could explain the treatment inflicted on this group of children.'
The statement, signed by the club's lawyer Julie Jacob, went on to say it would launch a formal complaint and legal action, claiming that the passengers 'were seated, respecting the rules and the staff... they did not pose any disturbance to public order or flight safety'.
This triggered an outcry in Israel, with Minister of Diaspora Amichai Chikli accusing Vueling and Spanish law enforcement of antisemitism, saying the kids were removed after 'singing Hebrew songs on the plane' and accusing Vueling staff of declaring Israel a 'terrorist state', without providing evidence.
One of the minors on the flight told AFP: 'One of my friends shouted a word in Hebrew because he was still a bit in holiday-camp mood.' He added: 'Perhaps he said it too loudly.'
A mother whose 17-year-old son was on the flight is said to have told AFP that the she 'could not see what could have justified' the incident and claimed the children 'were disembarked like dogs'.
The club says it has now filed an official complaint against the airline. It also says it denies allegations by Vueling that 'incidents were caused by the minors' and has accused the company of 'brutality.
A statement released by the club read: 'The facts are clear, serious, established and corroborated by multiple testimonies. They describe a scene of rare, unjustified, and clearly biased brutality: 44 children were removed from the aircraft, without a valid explanation, on the orders of the captain.
'These children, supervised by 7 adults, had just finished a cultural stay; they were seated in their seats, respecting the rules and the staff. No incident, no threat, no inappropriate behaviour was reported.
'On the contrary, several independent passengers on the plane wrote statements confirming that the children did not pose any threat to public order or flight safety.
'In this context, the attitude of the crew and the brutality of the intervention of the Spanish law enforcement, which led to the disembarkation without accompaniment, without care, without accommodation or food, arouse legitimate indignation.'
In response to the backlash, a Vueling spokesperson said the passengers were removed after the minors repeatedly tampered with the plane's emergency equipment and interrupted the crew's safety demonstration.
Vueling shared a lengthy statement rejecting allegations of anti-Semitism
'A group of passengers engaged in highly disruptive behaviour and adopted a very confrontational attitude, putting at risk the safe conduct of the flight.
'We categorically deny any suggestion that our crew's behaviour was related to the religion of the passengers involved.'
'This group mishandled emergency equipment and actively disrupted the mandatory safety demonstration, repeatedly ignoring instructions from cabin crew.
'Despite multiple warnings, this inappropriate behaviour persisted, which forced the crew to activate established security protocols,' the statement read, adding that Spain's civil guard took the decision to remove the passengers after being notified by the captain.
'We categorically deny any suggestion that our crew's decision related to the religion of the passengers involved. This decision was taken solely to ensure the safety of all passengers,' it said.
The airline said it had taken witness statements as part of its internal inquiry into the incident, and went on to accuse the children of 'attempting to loosen life jackets, tampering with overhead oxygen masks and removing a high-pressure oxygen cylinder', thereby violating air safety laws.
A lawyer for the summer camp group told French TV that some of the children on the jet wore a kippah, and that she had no other explanation for what transpired other than the fact that they were Jewish.
But Vueling has categorically denied that the crew's behaviour was a response to the passengers' religion.
Spain's Civil Guard confirmed all the passengers removed from the plane were French nationals.
A Civil Guard spokesperson said the agents involved in the removal operation and the arrest of one member of the party were not aware of the group's religious affiliation.
It also said that the group was expelled from the flight 'without care, escort, accommodation or food'. The Civil Guard said 23 minors and two adults from the group boarded a flight belonging to another airline, while the rest spent Wednesday night at a hotel.
A spokesperson said arrangements were being made for them to leave Valencia later on Thursday.
The Federation for Jewish Communities of Spain today expressed concern about the incident, calling on Vueling to provide documentary evidence of what happened on the plane.
'The various accounts circulating on social media and in the media to which we have had access do not clarify the cause of the incident,' the organisation said.
'We are particularly interested in clarifying whether there were any possible religiously discriminatory motives toward the minors.'
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