PARIS: French authorities are trying to establish whether a group of young French citizens were removed from a plane bound for Paris from Spain this week because they are Jewish. The airline, Vueling, has denied the claims. Several dozen French passengers on Wednesday were kicked off a flight leaving the Spanish city of Valencia for Paris, for what Spanish police and the airline described as unruly behavior.

Some 44 French-Jewish students aged between 10 and 15 and seven adults were escorted off Vueling flight V8166 as it waited on the tarmac at Valencia airport yesterday ahead of its…

The holiday camp the children were flying with has now accused Vueling of brutality and filed a complaint against the airline.