Re: ! Belarus takes advantage of demented White House to hijack airliner with anti-govt activist

Kurt Nicklas wrote:

> EU blasts Belarus for ‘hijack’ of airliner and arrest of activist
> 
> European leaders expressed outrage after Belarus on Sunday forced a
> Ryanair flight between two EU capitals to land in Minsk and arrested
> an anti-government activist on board.
> 
> EU leaders will discuss the case at a summit Monday, European Council
> President Charles Michel said in a statement, adding: “The incident
> will not remain without consequences.” His spokesman said
> “possible sanctions” would be on the table.
> 
> European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen branded the
> Belarusian operation that diverted the flight en route from Athens to
> Vilnius a “hijacking.”
> 
> “The outrageous and illegal behaviour of the regime in Belarus will
> have consequences,” she tweeted on Sunday night, demanding the
> immediate release of activist and journalist Roman Protasevich.
> 
> Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said the incident was “an
> unprecedented act of state terrorism” that could not go unpunished;
> the airliner is registered in Poland.
> 
> A senior EU official said heads of state and government would
> contemplate an array of potential punitive measures against Alexander
> Lukashenko and his government in addition to levying additional
> sanctions and calling for an investigation by the International Civil
> Aviation Organization.
> 
> Such steps could include banning Belavia, the state-owned Belarusian
> national airline, from landing in EU airports; suspending all flights
> of EU airlines through Belarusian airspace; and suspending all
> transit, including ground transit from Belarus into the EU, the senior
> official said. Some EU airlines on Monday were already avoiding flying
> over Belarus.
> 
> Exiled Belarus opposition leader Svetlana Tikhanovskaya said on
> Twitter that Protasevich faces the death penalty. She demanded his
> immediate release, as well as a United Nations investigation and
> sanctions against the government of Lukashenko.
> 
> Belarus’ official Belta news agency reported that a plane had been
> diverted, but did not mention an arrest. It did, however, report that
> the order for the plane to land was given by Lukashenko.
> 
> Full article here:
> 
> https://www.politico.eu/article/belarus-journalist-arrest-roman-protas
> evich-diverted-flight-minsk/ ---
> Kurt Nicklas
> Psalm 68:1



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