Incident occurred on the IB0102 flight that left Buenos Aires on Monday (4) towards Madrid, according to a statement from the delegation of Argentine Israeli Associations (Daia)
Jewish passengers who requested Kosher menus on a flight from the Spanish Iberia airline received food trays with free messages, the company said and an association on Tuesday (5). The incident occurred on the IB0102 flight that left Buenos Aires on Monday to Madrid, according to a statement from the delegation of Argentine Israeli Associations (Daia), which denounced a “serious act of anti-Semitism.”
During the flight, which landed on Tuesday in the Spanish capital, one of the passengers received the food with the message “Free Leada”, written with a black marker about one of the labels, according to Daia, who published the image on his site. “Other passengers passengers also received trays with the initials ‘FP’,” the organization said, adding that he had made “contact with the authorities of the airline for immediate demands and actions” about what was qualified as “discriminatory act.”
Iberia issued a statement in which it registered the incident and announced an “exhaustive investigation, both inside and with the external suppliers responsible for Catering, with the objective of clarifying the incident”. “The crew of Iberia documented the incident and was involved to serve the affected. The commander personally headed to apologize on behalf of the airline,” he explained. “Behaviors of this feature are unacceptable and contrary to the values of respect and inclusion that are an essential part of Iberia,” added the company, which promised to “adopt all measures that are pertinent” as it is clarified.
The incident occurs a few days after another who affected Jewish passengers, in this case French, in the Spanish airline Vueling, which as Iberia is owned by the IAG Group, matrix of British Airways. On July 23, a group of Jewish French teenagers who were returning from vacation from were removed, along with their monitors, from the plane that should take them from Valencia airport to minutes before taking off. The company justified the decision for “security reasons” and said the teenagers had an “inappropriate conduct” on the plane. The version was countered by the camp organizing association, which announced that it presented a complaint for “physical, psychological violence and discrimination for religious reasons.”
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*With information from AFP
Posted by Nicolas Robert
