A black woman over 70 years old, victim of racial violence on a Ryanair plane, then invited to change seat while the attacker remains in position

A video broadcast on social media and showing a woman victim of racist violence after sitting on a plane sparked questions about how the airline handled the incident.

The 77-year-old woman had taken a seat in the Ryanair flight aisle FR9015 from Barcelona to London on Friday, when a man sitting in the porthole seemed to be offended by the fact that she be his neighbor. A male flight attendant tried to calm things down and asked the woman if she wanted to sit somewhere else, which she had initially refused.

Then the man sitting near the window shouted, "Do not talk to me in a foreign language, idiot of ugly cow!", In reference to her Jamaican accent, before calling this woman "ugly black bastard". A passenger behind her stepped in asking the man to stop.

The incident was filmed by fellow passenger David Lawrence, who uploaded it to Facebook, where he has been seen more than two million times. Lawrence said Newsweek he was unhappy with the airline's response that he described as "absolutely incompetent and unprofessional." Ryanair is not sure. "

This woman's daughter told the Huffington Post that she had brought her mother, an immigrant from the Windrush Generation who came from Jamaica to the UK in the 1960s, on vacation to mark the first anniversary of her death. her husband.

"I know if I behaved this way, or any other black person, the police would have been called and we would have been fired from the theft." Mom is really upset and very stressed by this situation, in addition to I am angry about all this too, the fact that the passenger was not removed from the aircraft and the way the situation was handled, "she said. referring to her mother as Ms. Gayle, without giving her her full name.

Ryanair's air crew was criticized for not having put the man down and having him change his place in the place of the man.

This passenger was filmed shouting racial abuse against a seventy-year-old woman in the Ryanair flight. The airline said the case had been reported to the police. David Lawrence

UK dark transport MP Karl Turner tweeted: "He should have been removed from the flight and handed over to the police."

Scottish MP Stuart McMillan tweeted: "He should have been removed from the robbery and handed over to the police."

Another Scottish MP, Margaret Ferrier, said: "A racist passenger should have been suspended before he left. The flight attendant is unable to react properly.

Meanwhile, Jeremy Vine, eminent BBC radio presenter, explained that the airline had to "explain how the racial abuse inflicted on this man by the redemption of the black lady sitting next to him ended up asking to HER to move in. It's amazing. "

In a statement, Ryanair said it reported the case to the police in Essex, UK. "We are applying strict guidelines to disruptive passengers and we will not tolerate such unruly behavior, we will take the matter further and adopt disruptive or abusive behavior like this," passengers will be banned from the trip ".

The Essex police said on Sunday: "This incident, of which we were informed this morning, allegedly took place in a plane from Barcelona airport. The Essex police take seriously the crimes based on prejudices and we want all incidents to be reported.We are working closely with Ryanair and the Spanish authorities to the investigation. "