The flight grounded in the Marne has left the airport

(Read five minors and not two §2)

PARIS (Reuters) – The flight grounded for four days at Paris-Vatry airport (Marne), due to suspicions of human trafficking, was able to take off early Sunday afternoon, the prefecture said de la Marne in a press release.

Of the 303 passengers who arrived in France on Thursday, only 276 took their seats on the plane which took off at 2:35 p.m. (1:35 p.m. GMT), 25 of them, including five minors, wishing to request asylum in France.

“People who have expressed the wish to request asylum will benefit from an interview with Ofpra (French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons, Editor’s note), as part of the asylum procedure at the border,” said specified the prefecture.

The two remaining passengers, heard earlier by the courts on their role in this case, were released and placed under assisted witness status, indicated a judicial source.

Custody measures were decided on Friday against the two people in order to check whether their role “could have been different from that of the others”.

Doubts still persist about the destination of the flight, which according to the prefecture, would be bound for Bombay, India. However, flight tracking site flightradar24 indicates that Legend Airlines’ Airbus A340 is heading to Fujairah, United Arab Emirates.

The Airbus A340 of the Romanian company Legend Airlines was operating a flight between Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and Nicaragua on Thursday with 303 Indian passengers on board. He was making a technical stopover in France when he was immobilized following anonymous information suggesting possible human trafficking.

(Read five minors and not two §2)

(Written by Kate Entringer)