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LONDON – From his seat near the window of a Ryanair flight that was due to take off for London, the White reprimanded and intimidated an elderly black passenger, noisily urging him to move and racistly commenting on his appearance and accent.
He called her "ugly and ugly cow" and "ugly black bastard" and told her not to speak to her in a "foreign language", although the woman born in Jamaica speaks English.
But the flight attendants did not bring him to a different seat or out of the plane. Instead, with a camera recorded on a cell phone, the woman was forced to move while the man threatened to push her. The flight soon took off from Barcelona, Spain, without the man appearing to suffer any consequences.
The treatment of the episode by Ryanair on Friday is now the subject of harsh criticism, of people threatening to boycott the Dublin-based airline and British officials promising to raise the issue in Parliament.
David Lammy, a legislator of the Labor Party, cited on Twitter the famous position of Rosa Parks against discrimination on a bus, adding: "We will not return."
Another legislator, Karl Turner, who speaks for the work on transport, wrote on Twitter: "@ Ryanair has failed dramatically here. The suspicion that the pressure for the aircraft to be quickly returned and suspended in the air meant that he had allowed the alleged offender to remain on the aircraft. He can now get away with it. "
A spokeswoman for Ryanair said the airline had reported the incident to the Essex police, responsible for the area around London Stansted airport, where the flight had landed, and did not want to know more.
The passenger who did the recording, David Lawrence, posted the video on Facebook; it has been seen millions of times and has been reposted by many users.
The police asked anyone with information to call him.
"The Essex police are serious about bias-based crimes and we want all incidents to be reported," police said in a statement. "We are working closely with Ryanair and the Spanish authorities as part of the investigation."
But Mr Turner said that since Ryanair is an Irish company and that the incident occurred on the ground in Spain, the man could probably not be prosecuted in Great Britain. -Britain. He blamed the airline for not alerting the Spanish authorities while the plane was still on the tarmac.
"@Ryanair has" tolerated "criminal behavior," Turner said on Twitter.
The man began to blame the woman in the driveway after trying to slip beside her during boarding.
The woman, who has arthritis, did not get up fast enough, and when Mr. Lawrence took out his mobile phone to record, his daughter was defending her.
"Do not tell me what to do," he replied. "If I tell her to go out, she goes out."
A flight attendant tried to calm the man and girl of the woman. But after the flight attendant left the video frame of the cell phone, the man became even more angry.
The woman soon got up to sit with her daughter and the flight attendant told her that he would talk to a supervisor.
She said that they had gone to Barcelona to commemorate a year since her father's death.
The girl said about the man who berated her mother, "I know if I behaved like him – or any other black person, the police would have been called and the robbery would have been launched."
Ryanair's profits are down, with the airline – Europe's biggest discount airline – facing rising costs and flight cancellations.
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