Prosecution seeks separate punishment five years in prison For each of the 22 immigrants charged by the Son Sant Joan boat plane that landed in November 2021 after a false medical emergency. The public prosecutor chooses to impute them. crime of incitement It is contained in the Air Navigation Act of 1964. The prosecution emphasizes that the defendants caused an “unprecedented situation in European airspace” and that this was an action entirely planned weeks in advance. The hearing will be heard in Palma State Court in the coming months. defendants They have been detained since their arrest.most on the day of the event and the rest in the following weeks, but three remain undisclosed.
The indictment filed by the Prosecutor’s Office, ElDiario.esirregular entry of immigrants into Spain, palm airportwas planned in a Facebook group of young Moroccans. Following this plan, they boarded an Air Arabia flight covering the route between Morocco and Turkey on November 5, 2021. pretending to have a serious diabetic problem. A so-called doctor who traveled on the ship and was not as accredited as the prosecution reflected, reassured the crew that his condition was critical. Thus, the commander was authorized to change course and make an emergency landing in Palma.
When the plane lands in Son Sant Joan, the wrong Patient transferred to Son Llatze hospitalr, where doctors found no trace of the disease. A passenger who accompanied him to the medical center managed to escape whenever he could.
Meanwhile in front of the plane A large group of passengers began to gather at the front.causativerebel». One of them opened the emergency door to delay departure, and the others demanded to be able to exit the device to smoke. All of a sudden, 24 of them got off the plane after it had barely advanced, started running down the runways and jumped over a fence to escape. The aim was to enter Spain on an irregular basis.
The prosecution draws attention with this action Caused “an unprecedented situation in European airspace that was notorious and had international repercussions”, because the airport was closed for several hours and dozens of flights had to be cancelled, diverted or delayed. As the public ministry disclosed, the plane the migrants fled from was not under police surveillance when the migrants managed to escape. The subsequent deployment of security forces made it possible to stop twelve people within a few hours. The rest were placed in various parts of the island in the following weeks.