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| Report: Amsterdam airport guard with ‘sadism in his eyes' harasses freed hostage |
| 2024-04-08 |
| [IsraelTimes] Worker said to back off after companion contacts Israeli ambassador; incident follows similar interrogation of Supernova massacre survivors at Manchester airport A freed hostage and a woman accompanying her on a Defense Ministry-sponsored speaking tour in the Netherlands were reportedly harassed and publicly humiliated by a security worker in Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport on Friday. The Israeli Embassy in the Netherlands told Israel’s Ynet news site that they were aware of the incident and other similar recent incidents. According to a Ynet report, the women encountered the worker, who was a shift supervisor at the time, during their passport check, where at his request they moved to a slower-moving line. He then reportedly told them they could go through the faster passport check, with the caveat that if it transpired that one of them could not pass, they would be fined 350 euros ($380). Later, when the women were waiting to have their carry-on luggage screened, they said that the same worker pulled them out of the line and yelled at them in front of dozens of passengers, accusing them of fraud and loudly identifying them as Israelis, repeatedly saying the name of Israel’s national airline El Al. Berated by the security worker, the companion told him she would contact Modi Ephraim, Israel’s ambassador to the Netherlands, but the guard was incredulous. When he realized the woman was actually speaking with the Israeli envoy, she said, he let them go, quietly telling them that the airport would "collect the bill for the fraud from El Al." "It was very clear that he saw the Israeli passport and got ticked off," the woman accompanying the released hostage told Ynet, adding that "he had sadism in his eyes." The former hostage in question asked not to be identified in the report. Alerted by Ephraim, El Al’s security officer at the airport rushed to the scene, according to the report. Ahead of the officer’s arrival, the women were moved to the back of the security line by the shift supervisor before he walked away. Another worker was said to have yelled at the women at this point for loitering, but let them skip the line after the woman accompanying the hostage warned him that there would be consequences for further abuse. The El Al security officer then assisted the women in lodging a complaint with the airport’s police against the shift supervisor who they say had humiliated them. In a similar incident several weeks ago, Supernova survivors Daniel and Neriya Sharabi, brothers who saved dozens of people amid the Hamas attack on the music festival on October 7, were reportedly detained and interrogated for hours at Manchester Airport by Border Force officers who told them they have to "make sure that they are not going to do what [Israel is] doing in Gaza over here." British Home Secretary James Cleverly subsequently announced he would investigate the Border Force’s treatment of two brothers. |
| Posted by:trailing wife |
| #2 No further info on the perp tells a lot. |
| Posted by: Super Hose 2024-04-08 13:40 |
| #1 EUrope is a garden of toxic flowers. |
| Posted by: Grom the Reflective 2024-04-08 01:00 |