The photo of Roman Protassevich went around the world last spring.
Eight months after his arrest on the tarmac of Minsk airport (Belarus), the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) is preparing to examine the circumstances in which the Ryanair flight on board which the opponent in exile had taken place was forced to land there.
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At the time, this extraordinary event was described by many countries as an
“act of state piracy”
.
The European Union, which had already sanctioned the regime of Alexander Lukashenko after the disputed election of August 2020, reacted by banning its airports to Belarusian companies and instructing its own carriers to no longer fly over the country.
For their part, the Minsk authorities plead good faith.
Swearing to have invited the aircraft to land on the basis of a mysterious bomb alert, they defend themselves from any machination and now demand the lifting of this ostracism.
But their version...
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