From Le Figaro with AFP
Published yesterday at 8:29 p.m., updated yesterday at 9:50 p.m.
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The plane on a flight from the UK to Spain's Canary Islands was diverted due to a disruption caused by eight passengers. One of them refused to leave the plane and was arrested.
A passenger on a flight from the United Kingdom to Spain's Canary Islands was arrested on Friday at Faro airport in southern Portugal, where the plane was diverted due to a disturbance caused by him and seven other passengers, Portuguese police said. The arrested passenger was Anglo-Polish and the seven others affected were of Polish nationality, a local police official told AFP.
They caused “trouble”
Portuguese authorities intervened when the flight between Luton and Lanzarote was diverted to Faro due to the presence of “eight unruly passengers,” police reported in a statement. These passengers “caused disruption, particularly by shouting and repeatedly banging on the doors of the carry-on baggage compartment, as well as by consuming alcoholic beverages and ignoring instructions from the flight crew,” the statement said. We quote from the same source.
At the request of the police, seven of these passengers agreed to leave the plane “without resistance,” but one of them refused and behaved in a “hostile and aggressive manner.” According to a press release from the Portuguese authorities, he was eventually arrested for “disobedience” and “resisting a police officer.” Police did not provide any information about which company carried out the theft in question. According to several British media outlets, it was a flight of the low-cost airline Ryanair.