A passage before the judge of freedoms and detention. This is what will punctuate the Sunday of the 303 passengers, all of Indian nationality, kept at Vatry airport (Marne), since Thursday afternoon. The airport reception hall has been transformed by prefectural decree into a waiting area for foreigners. Suspicions of human trafficking weigh on this flight between Dubai (United Arab Emirates) to Managua, capital of Nicaragua via an Airbus A340 of the Romanian company Legend Airlines.
The detention of passengers by the border police can only last four days, but a judge of freedoms and detention can extend the duration of the placement by eight days then, exceptionally, by an additional eight days. The hearings should begin at 9 a.m. and continue until Monday, the president of Reims, Me Pascal Guillaume, told AFP.
Two police custody which began on Friday were also “extended on Saturday evening, for a maximum duration of 48 hours”, the Paris prosecutor’s office told AFP, “in order to verify” whether the role of these two people “could have been be different from that of others in this transport, and under what conditions and with what objective.