A group of orthodox Jews from New York was denied onward travel on a Lufthansa flight to a memorial service in Budapest at Frankfurt Airport on Wednesday.
As reported by the federal police, they were called to "presence" after 127 passengers had been banned from flying by Lufthansa, but had otherwise taken no police action.
The Lufthansa spokesman confirmed that a larger group of passengers had not been transported from Frankfurt to Budapest as planned.
The background was incidents on the flight from New York to Frankfurt.
There, passengers repeatedly refused to wear masks.
Theresa White
Editor in the Rhein-Main-Zeitung.
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A passenger from New York told the FAZ that some on the flight to Frankfurt did not wear the masks correctly;
however, he and many passengers would have followed the rules.
Nevertheless, all recognizable Jewish people should not have been allowed to continue flying.
The New Yorker is of the opinion that Lufthansa did not deliberately exclude those passengers from boarding who had behaved incorrectly, but rather all those who could be identified as Jews by their hat and sidelocks.
The Jews on board were not even a closed tour group.
Lufthansa is investigating the incident and cannot yet provide any further information as to why these passengers were unable to continue their journey or what else happened on board the plane from America.
A video from Wednesday, available to the FAZ, shows a Lufthansa employee making an announcement to a group of orthodox Jews in the transit area.
He says in English: "Due to operational reasons on the flight from New York, we have to cancel the onward flight for all passengers here.
You know why.” The Lufthansa spokesman announced that the flight to Budapest took off with a slight delay and 30 people on board.
According to the passenger, the other travelers had to wait a long time at the airport.
He flew back to the United States on Thursday afternoon.