British and French activists write to Air France, AlbaStar, Titan and Corendon airlines over ‘shameful involvement’
Campaigners have urged airlines deporting asylum seekers to France as part of the UK’s controversial “one in, one out” scheme to stop facilitating the “cruel and forced deportations”.
Letters have been sent by 28 refugee and human rights NGOs on both sides of the Channel to four airlines believed to be involved with deportation flights – Air France, Titan airways, AlbaStar airlines and Corendon airlines – urging them to halt what signatories call “shameful involvement” with the flights.
The letter calls for a boycott of Air France and demands the other three airlines make public declarations that they will stop deporting people for the Home Office. They accused the carriers of “complicity in cruel and forced deportations including of victims of torture, trafficking and modern slavery”.
It is understood that dozens of asylum seekers were forcibly removed to France on Thursday morning, despite warnings that their lives would be in danger there from traffickers.
