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Ryanair Accused of Inaction Over Racist Incident

Luke Will
Last updated: 21 October 2018 12:13
By Luke Will 4 Min Read
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Dublin Based budget airline, Ryanair, has fallen into disrepute once again this week over it’s inaction regarding a racist incident aboard a flight earlier this week. Flight FR015 was flying from Barcelona (Spain) to London Stansted when a passenger threw a tirade of racist abuse to a 77 year-old woman onboard. A video released shows the man calling the woman a “ugly black bastard” and declaring “don’t talk to me in a foreign language” when she spoke to him in English with her native Jamaican accent.

The budget airline tweeted on Sunday that it had seen the footage and reported the incident to Essex police. It added: “As this is now a police matter, we cannot comment further.”
A spokeswoman for Essex police said: “This incident, which we were made aware of this morning, is believed to have taken place on a plane at Barcelona airport. Essex police takes prejudice-based crime seriously and we want all incidents to be reported.” further adding that they “are working closely with Ryanair and the Spanish authorities on the investigation.”

The video shows the man shouting at the woman to move seats, while her daughter angrily tells him her mother is disabled which is why she is moving slowly.
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The argument started because her mother – a member of the Windrush generation who came to the UK in the 1960s – has arthritis so it took her some time to move out of the way so the man could reach the window seat with the man initially responding “I don’t care whether she’s fucking disabled or not – if I tell her to get out she gets out.” The man proceeds to tell staff to move the woman to another seat, adding: “If you don’t go to another seat I’ll push you to another seat.”

In the footage, cabin crew appear to be doing little initially to stop the man’s tirade, with a passenger in the row behind him telling him to stop the abuse. Then a cabin crew member can be heard saying to the man: “Don’t be so rude, you have to calm down,” while other passengers call for the man to be thrown off the flight. The woman can be heard telling the man he stinks and needs a wash, before asking to be moved so she can sit next to her daughter.

“I know that if I was behaving like he was, or any other black person for that matter, police would have been called and we would have been kicked off the flight,” the daughter said.
“Mum’s really feeling upset and very stressed about this situation, on top of the grief she’s already experiencing. As for me, I’m upset about the whole thing too – the fact that the passenger wasn’t taken off the plane and how the situation was dealt with,” She added that cabin crew denied hearing racist slurs and told her to ring customer services on Monday. The Labour MP for East Hull and shadow attorney general, Karl Turner, tweeted: “He should have been removed from the flight and handed over to the police.
“We assume the aircraft was in the UK. I fully expect Ryanair to confirm the situation if in fact it was their flight.”

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