BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgian police said on Friday that all 56 Iranian monarchist protesters who had occupied a Lufthansa plane were escorted off the aircraft without incident.
"It's ended," spokesman Olivier Vincent said, 16 hours after the protest began at Brussels airport. "The plane is empty now and the police are checking the identities of the passengers. There was no violence at all."
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I just watched "Lahze" TV channel and they had a live telephone conversation with 2 of the protesters and got the update on where they are right now,what happened,etc..I try to be as precise as possible!!
"It's ended," spokesman Olivier Vincent said, 16 hours after the protest began at Brussels airport. "The plane is empty now and the police are checking the identities of the passengers. There was no violence at all."
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I just watched "Lahze" TV channel and they had a live telephone conversation with 2 of the protesters and got the update on where they are right now,what happened,etc..I try to be as precise as possible!!
- After 16 hrs of sitting in the airplane as a protest to EU's trades and support for IR, airport security escorted them out of the airplane.
- he said, to make us frustrated to quit,they did not serve us any water,food and the conditioner was off so it was cold.
- After security staff forced them out of the plane,they took them to 2 buses for prisoners followed by couple of police cars and they are being escorted out of airport. but the destination is not clear yet.
- They are members of "tashkilat e padeshahi" with Mr.Fouladvand(living in England) as the leader of the group. but it wasnt his idea to start this protest.
- All of them have European citizenship,coming from England,Germany,Netherland,Sweden,France,etc..and this was a planned protest to show their anger towards IR regime, terrorism and EU's trade with IR.
- 12 of them are women and there r 2 kids among them too. one of the group members is very sick after 16 hrs and is given medication by airport officials.
- Majority of the group are young and they have no intention of harming anyone,they just want their voice to be heard by EU officials.
- They were specifically complaining about the way they have been treated,just like criminals w/o harming anyone,with their peaceful protests. He said he expects the group getting detained after being escorted out of the plane.
