Thread: World leaders condemn Belarus after Ryanair flight is forced to land and journalist i

Originally Posted by panama hat

Putin and Lukashenko . . . loving birds of a feather.

Just take a look at Vlads face and body language and you'll see a master and his lapdog.
Lukashenko has been very dependent of Vlad in the past and is now, after the worlds condemnation of the hijacking and EU's sanctions, even more dependent.
This current affair has one winner and that is Vlad, he is the puppet master who now completely owns an isolated Lukashenko.

Originally Posted by lom

Just take a look at Vlads face and body language and you'll see a master and his lapdog.
Lukashenko has been very dependent of Vlad in the past and is now, after the worlds condemnation of the hijacking and EU's sanctions, even more dependent.
This current affair has one winner and that is Vlad, he is the puppet master who now completely owns an isolated Lukashenko.

No shit Sherlock!

Originally Posted by Klondyke

The uttermost attention seems to overrun some minor events as it was - and still is - in Palestine.

Didn't you hear your buddy Lukaschenka who said the Terror Territory of Palestine "Hamas" was behind the hijacking of the plane.
Now don't come bitching and crying to me again because Little ole Herman did not say it.

Originally Posted by Hugh Cow

The UK has already diverted its aircraft and banned the Belarus airline from the UK.

Here's a photo of some passengers at Minsk airport who haven't heard yet.

Lukashenko strikes again...This time in Berlin

Ryanair flight makes unscheduled landing in Berlin

Police searched the machine during the night after it requested emergency authorization to land in the German capital.

A Ryanair passenger plane flying between Ireland and Poland made an emergency landing in Berlin on Sunday, German police said.

How events unfolded
The flight with 160 people on board was en route from Dublin to Krakow when it arrived at the Berlin-Brandenburg airport shortly after 8 p.m. (1800 UTC) on Sunday. It remained grounded at the airport into early Monday morning.

Germany's federal police arrived at the scene. They used detection dogs to inspect baggage before it was taken inside the airport.

A Berlin police spokeswoman said that officers had completed their security checks but they had not detected any danger.

"The passengers will resume their journey to Poland aboard a different airplane," the police spokeswoman told news agency AFP, without providing further information.

Passengers were able to travel on in a replacement plane at around 4 a.m. local time.

Reason for unscheduled landing not yet clear

The Ryanair plane made the landing after reporting an air emergency and "was therefore immediately given a landing permit at BER," airport spokesman Jan-Peter Haack told German tabloid newspaper Bild.

Bild reported that the unexpected diversion came after a reported bomb threat but police did not publicly comment on details of the operation.

The incident took place a week after another Ryanair flight was forced to land in Belarus' capital Minsk before authorities arrested a journalist onboard. The forced diversion prompted international outcry and the European Union subsequently urged its airlines to avoid Belarus airspace.

The official reason given for the forced diversion of the Ryanair flight by Belarus earlier in May was a reported bomb threat.

In July last year, another Ryanair plane from Dublin to Krakow was forced to make an emergency landing in London after a false bomb threat.

Ryanair flight makes unscheduled landing in Berlin | News | DW | 31.05.2021

Originally Posted by Klondyke

Lukashenko strikes again...This time in Berlin

Twit.

Belarus to Try Russian Citizen Detained on Diverted Flight

A Russian student detained on a diverted Ryanair flight will face trial in Belarus, the country’s foreign minister told Russia’s Kommersant business daily Monday.


Sofia Sapega, 23, was arrested with dissident journalist boyfriend Roman Protasevich on May 23 when Belarusian authorities scrambled a military jet to divert the passenger plane over an alleged bomb threat.


“Most likely, [Sapega’s] trial will take place in Belarus, given that all the information about the subversive activities of certain individuals came into our structures,” Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei told Kommersant.


BBC’s Russian service has reported that Sapega faces three criminal charges: organizing violations of public order, inciting hatred and organizing mass unrest, each of which carry sentences of between three and 15 years in prison.

A video that leaked on a pro-Belarus government social media account last Tuesday showed Sapega admitting to running a social media page that published the personal information of law enforcement personnel. Members of the opposition said Sapega’s confession appeared to have been made under duress.


Makei said there are “different options” for Sapega, including being pardoned or extradited to Russia, a close Minsk ally that came to its defense amid a global outcry and Western sanctions over the plane diversion.


“The decision of the head of state can be made on both pardoning and transferring to serve a further sentence in Russia. We'll have to wait,” he told Kommersant.


Sapega’s defense lawyer said she will be formally indicted later Monday, according to Russia’s state-run RIA Novosti news agency.


The Kremlin has said that Russian President Vladimir Putin — who praised Russia’s close ties with Belarus during his talks with President Alexander Lukashenko on Friday and Saturday — raised the topic of Sapega.


Hundreds of people rallied in support of Protasevich and Sapega in neighboring Poland on Saturday.


Belarus to Try Russian Citizen Detained on Diverted Flight - The Moscow Times

Originally Posted by Klondyke

after a reported bomb threat

Reported by whom, to who?

Originally Posted by misskit

Sapega admitting to running a social media page that published the personal information of law enforcement personnel.

Which is against the law in Belarus and possibly other countries, presumably.

Originally Posted by misskit

Sapega’s confession appeared to have been made under duress.

Playing games can end in tears, irrespective of being someone's girlfriend.

Originally Posted by TheRealKW

Ryanair

Seems there's a pattern forming. MI6, Mossad?

Originally Posted by OhOh

Reported by whom, to who?


Which is against the law in Belarus and possibly other countries, presumably.


Playing games can end in tears, irrespective of being someone's girlfriend.


Seems there's a pattern forming. MI6, Mossad?

The only pattern is that you're guaranteed to be posting the usual bollocks in this thread.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

The only pattern is that you're guaranteed to be posting the usual bollocks in this thread.

It's a typically primitive and base way of doing it - very much Russia/Soviet Union/China methodology

Look at the source

Self-explanatory, isn't it

Originally Posted by TheRealKW

Look at the source

The article quotes the source as

Originally Posted by Klondyke

The Ryanair plane made the landing after reporting an air emergency

presumably the pilot called ATC.

Who "informed" the pilot? A passenger, ATC, Ryanair ....

Originally Posted by OhOh

The article quotes the source as



presumably the pilot called ATC.

Who "informed" the pilot? A passenger, ATC, Ryanair ....

Let me know which bit you're struggling with.

In a statement, Ryanair said Belarus air traffic control had notified the crew of a “potential security threat on board” and instructed them to “divert to the nearest airport, Minsk”.

Such an overblown affair will only play in hands of dangerous Mr. P.
Wherever before Luka had tried to play with both sides, now with all the sanctions they have sent him in the sole P.' arms...

It would seem the best future for Belarus is for Russia to just annexe it. Most Belarussians would be grateful, I reckon.

Originally Posted by sabang

It would seem the best future for Belarus is for Russia to just annexe it.

Putin has been eying to do that since long so it is only a matter of time before it happens.
Lukashenko the last president of Belarus..

Originally Posted by lom

Putin has been eying to do that since long so it is only a matter of time before it happens.
Lukashenko the last president of Belarus..

Belarus as a country, did not exist ever until 1991.

Originally Posted by sabang

It would seem the best future for Belarus is for Russia to just annexe it. Most Belarussians would be grateful, I reckon.

Why bother when you have your puppet dictator in charge of it anyway?

Originally Posted by OhOh

"If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor" - Albert Einstein

Sounds like one of Lukashenko's lackeys trying to create a "See, it happens all the time" scenario.

The Irish airline on Monday said it made the unscheduled landing due to information received about a possible security threat on board.
There was a tip-off, an announcement by telephone," a spokesman for the federal police said on Monday. "We needed to rule out that there was any danger," he added.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Let me know which bit you're struggling with.

In a statement, Ryanair said Belarus air traffic control had notified the crew of a “potential security threat on board” and instructed them to “divert to the nearest airport, Minsk”.

And the whataboutism doesn't stop . . .

Originally Posted by OhOh

"If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor" - Albert Einstein

Perhaps you should try it some time.

Was any regime-critic taken off the plane arrested in Germany?

Originally Posted by sabang

Most Belarussians would be grateful, I reckon.

based on what analysis? Egregious codswallop most likely

Originally Posted by sabang

Most Belarussians would be grateful, I reckon.

Originally Posted by TheRealKW

based on what analysis? Egregious codswallop most likely

Of course they'd jump at the chance and go from a totalitarian dictatorship under their own people to a totalitarian dictatorship by a foreign power.

Stands to reason

'Foreign power'. Bela and Russia are kinda linked at the hip. Belars enjoy the same access to Russian hospitals etc as Russian citizens, and enjoy visa- indeed pretty much border free access.

It seems there is no love lost between Lukashenko and Putin, and the bloke in his desperation to hang on to power has become a clown and an embarassment. And hey, it worked out pretty well for Crimea. Can't be ruled out.