Avoid Wizzair airline if you have darker looks

[Bonobo]

Armenian-born Pole who 'looked like a terrorist' taken off flight
19.07.2016 14:40
A 26-year-old Polish national of Armenian origin was removed from a plane in the coastal city of Gdańsk after a fellow passenger was alarmed by the man’s ethnic appearance, Radio Gdańsk reports.

Antiterrorist and Internal Security Agency (ABW) officers boarded the Wizzair plane bound for London last week after a distressed woman informed the crew that the man "looked like a terrorist", according to the report.

The Armenian-born man, who has been living in Poland since he was three, was granted Polish citizenship four years ago. He had been cleared for the flight at a border control, Radio Gdańsk says.

He was detained by border guards for three hours. Following questioning by the Internal Security Agency, he was offered an apology and released.

The next day, the man was refused entry to another plane to the British capital by Wizzair’s ground crew as he was “on [the airline’s] terrorist list,” Radio Gdańsk reports.

It was only this past weekend that he managed to fly to London, after he took a train to Warsaw and boarded a flight operated by Polish national air carrier LOT.

“I was treated like a criminal and humiliated in front of fellow passengers,” the man complained in an interview with Radio Gdańsk. He now intends to take legal action against the low-cost airline.



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Avoid this airline if you have darker looks



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[pjotr]

This happens more often than we might think or imagine. A lot of European people with an Armenian, Sephardic jewish, Georgian, Bulgarian, Romanian and sometimes even Hungarian (if you are dark and have some Gypsy Roma blood) background will be mistaken for Arabs or North-African Berber people. I read a story about a meeting of young Dutch jews and young Moroccans, after incidents with migrant youths who showed anti-semitic attitudes towards peers.

The succesful meeting started with a story of one of the Jewish participants with a Sephardic background and who looked Northern Afgrican with his dark, curly hair, olive skin and thus exotic looks. The Moroccan boys burst out in laughter and recognition when the Dutch jewish boy told the audience of Moroccans and jews that he was refused enterance to discotheques and some popular pubs several times because the bouncers considered him to be a Moroccan youth (Muslim migrant).

It was funny or recognisable for them, because they received the same treatment over and over again too. This created some bond between the jewish young man and his Moroccan peers. It put things into perspective. Ofcourse some of the Sephardic Dutch jews have Portugese and North-African (in some cases even Moroccan) backgrounds via their ancesters. Fact is that jews and Muslim Moroccans lived side by side for centuries without much problems and tensions.