Racist berates woman on the plane

A racist incident on a Ryanair line involves British police. The security forces in Essex have been informed of a video showing the situation, the Irish airline said on Twitter.

Statement: We are aware of this video and have reported it to Essex Police

Previously, the apparently recorded with a cell phone movie sequence had spread on the Internet, including the "Guardian" reported. In the video you can see how an elderly man argues with his seat neighbor about racist tirades against the woman. Among other things, he berates her as "ugly black bastard", ie "ugly, black bastard".

The video was released by the American David Lawrence, who therefore witnessed the scene on a flight from Barcelona to London. According to the Guardian, the aggressive man is a British and the mob is a 77-year-old black woman.

Other passengers tried to put him in his place, even the daughter of the woman defended, according to "Guardian" her arthritis mother. The Briton, however, did not stop: "Do not speak to me in a foreign language," he shouted as the woman answered in English with a Jamaican accent. "If you do not sit down, I'll push her to another place."

The Ryanair staff made in the published video is not particularly sovereign. A steward intervened, trying to calm the man. Finally, he took the elderly woman to another seat - exactly as the man had requested.

In social media, many users criticized the response of the on-board staff. Even David Lawrence, who filmed the whole thing, expressed incomprehension. "He should have been removed from his seat," he told ITV station over the Pöbler, "he should have been thrown out of the plane." Instead, the man with his harassment has achieved what he has demanded: that the woman had to change place.

David Lawrence, who filmed the incident in a Ryanair flight, describes his shock at what happened https://t.co/ruMwMqBFnt pic.twitter.com / tKTyes128j

Ryanair has not commented on the incident and possible consequences apart from the brief Twitter message.