{"id":19692,"date":"2018-10-24T17:26:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T17:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19692"},"modified":"2018-10-24T17:26:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T17:26:29","slug":"barcelona-investigating-ryanair-racist-for-possible-hate-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19692","title":{"rendered":"Barcelona investigating Ryanair racist for ‘possible hate crime’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Barcelona is pursuing a case against a man filmed subjecting a 77-year-old black woman to racist abuse on a Ryanair flight, according to a report<\/a> in the Guardian.<\/p>\n

Flight FR015 was departing Barcelona for the United Kingdom<\/a> on October 19 when the man launched his tirade, calling the elderly woman an “ugly black b***ard” and demanding that she change her seat.<\/p>\n

“I don’t care whether she\u2019s f****** disabled or not, if I tell her to get out she gets out,” said the man, who has been identified by British police but not publicly named.<\/p>\n

British police have forwarded the details to their Spanish counterparts, who are leading the investigation.<\/p>\n

The woman, later named as Delsia Gayle, asked to be reseated next to her daughter, who was also travelling.<\/p>\n

She told ITV News that she felt “very low” after the accident.<\/p>\n

“He pays his fare, I pay mine. So why did he abuse me for that? Because of the colour of my skin,” she told the news outlet, adding: “If I had done that to him, I’m sure they would have called the police.”<\/p>\n

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When are you going to apologise to Delsie Gayle and her daughter? What a horrible level of customer care you deliver.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Jasmine Dotiwala (@jasminedotiwala) October 22, 2018<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Staff are heard asking the racist man to calm down but he was not asked to leave the aircraft, prompting outrage and calls to boycott Ryanair.<\/p>\n

Barcelona’s deputy mayor Jaume Asens called Ryanair’s response “unacceptable”, in a tweet calling for witnesses on Monday.<\/p>\n

Ryanair has acknowledged the video but has not yet yielded to calls for an apology.<\/p>\n

“We are aware of this video and have reported this matter to Essex Police,” it said in a short statement published on Twitter on Sunday.<\/p>\n

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WATCH: “I feel really depressed about it…I travel a lot and nobody ever said this word to me.” Our exclusive interview with racially-abused #Ryanair<\/a> passenger Delsie Gayle and her daughter on their anger and shock over how they’ve been treated by the airline https:\/\/t.co\/rHv9cijmNI<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Laura Alderman (@itsbigginge) October 22, 2018<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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