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Third arrest in plane hijack case (update)Thursday 28 August 2008 A third person has been arrested in connection with an alleged plot to hijack a Transavia plane en route for Turkey, the public prosecution department said on Thursday, but declined to give further details. A 31-year-old man and 28-year-old woman are still in custody after a telephone warning that the plane was going to be hijacked on Tuesday. But family and friends of the couple from Dordrecht have told reporters that the couple were simply going on holiday and were probably the victims of a hoax call. ‘Fathi would not hurt a fly, this is not like him at all,’ the man’s brother told SBS tv. ‘He booked last minute and was going for 22 days. The rest of the family helped him finance it.’ The AD quotes Mehmed as saying the phone call was made in revenge by a drug addict former friend. Neighbours told the paper the idea that the couple were terrorists was laughable. Fathi and his girlfriend Hinda’s house was searched by police on Tuesday night and computers were taken away, brother Mehmed said. The door and a window were forced, Mehmed said. ‘It is a total mess.’ Passengers on the plane, which was kept on the tarmac for five hours, told the AD the couple drew attention to themselves by their behaviour. The public prosecution department declined to comment on the claims. © DutchNews.nl
Of course if they had been white-skinned they never would have been treated like this. Racism is so much part of Dutch society. By Mr Craig | August 28, 2008 12:05 PM Hello Mr Craig, I think you are going too far talking about racism in this case. What you should to do when getting call telling you that somenone want to hijack a plane with 100 or more peoples on board. The police is doing it's job. They are investigating and the Justice will be done. So let them investigate and if they are innocents then surley it will an apology. and the case will be closed. at least the police acted fast. By AT | August 28, 2008 4:27 PM Dear Graig Racism is alive here but remember there is no condition that is permanent.It is A's time today and Z's time last. By cm | August 28, 2008 5:19 PM Hello AT. Sadly you afre one of many who presume that the terrorist threat is from the muslim world. When in fact the biggest terrorist in the 21st century is George W Bush and his fellow white-skinned cohorts. You and your ilk are just dancing merrily to his tune whilst he massacres thousands in Iraq, Afganistan and Israel. By Mr Craig | August 29, 2008 9:40 AM
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So an innocent couple are set upon by armed police, blindfolded and bundled off a plane. There house is raided and their possessions taken away. All because of a crank call and people not liking the look of them. I missed the meeting where we became a police state modeled on Gestapo tactics!
By Guezen76 | August 28, 2008 10:38 AM