Prosecutor requests five years in prison for the crime of sedition for migrants who fled from a plane in Palma

PALMA, 14 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Public Prosecutor's Office requests five years in prison for the crime of sedition for the 22 migrants who fled after forcing a plane to land at the Son Sant Joan airport in November last year.

It should be remembered that the passengers fled the plane that was on the Casablanca-Istanbul route, taking advantage of a landing due to an alleged medical emergency, which was faked. Most of the fleeing migrants were detained the same day of the incident, others in the following weeks after a national search and capture order from the Investigating Court number 6 of Palma. Three, on the other hand, remain unaccounted for.

Precisely, just a week ago, another 28 migrants escaped at dawn from a plane from Casablanca, in Morocco, causing an emergency landing at the Barcelona-El Prat airport to care for a woman who was supposedly in labor.

The Prosecutor's Office stresses that the group of migrants devised "a plan to enter Spanish territory without meeting the legal requirements." "They intentionally delayed the resumption of the flight and started a riot" on the plane while it was at the Palma airport "generating chaos with absolute contempt" for the regulations and the crew who ordered to sit in the seats, enter Spain.

The Public Prosecutor explains that everything was orchestrated through a Facebook group, in which the ringleader, "whose true identity is unknown", made an appeal and carried out a plan based on the fact that a person would pretend that he had an emergency due to his illness diabetic

In its letter, advanced by 'ElDiario.es', the Prosecutor's Office maintains that the migrants caused an "unprecedented situation in the airspace", in which they "intimidated" the crew to finally "flee to the race" along the runways generating a "dangerous situation for people, aircraft and facilities, as well as for air traffic itself."

The 22 defendants, who remain in pretrial detention and whose trial will be held in 2023, are attributed a crime of sedition based on the 1964 Law, the same that the Government intends to reform. Alternatively, he attributes a crime of coercion to them for which he requests a sentence of three years in prison.

Likewise, it attributes to them a crime of mistreatment and against the rights of foreign citizens for which it requests six months and eight months in prison respectively.