French authorities hope to get permission “by Monday morning at the latest” to divert Indian passengers stranded at Marne airport since Thursday night after PLANE Romanian charter airline Legend Airlines she was detained for sol, amid suspicions of human trafficking, reports AFP.

Paris prosecutors told AFP the courts had allowed the plane to leave the Marne.

“This decision allows us to consider rerouting passengers placed in the waiting area” at the airport, the prefecture said in a press release, without giving details of any destination.

“Therefore, the competent authorities of the General Directorate of Civil Aviation (DGAC) are working on obtaining the necessary permits for the re-takeoff of the plane, which should take place no later than Monday morning,” she added.

The possibility of departure for these Indian passengers, 303 in total but two of whom are still in custody, is heightened by the courts overturning the detention of one passenger after three days at the airport, a decision that could affect others.

This cancellation, ordered by the JLD, is explained, in particular, by the 11-hour waiting period between the moment the plane was stopped and the moment the judge was notified, which is a “disproportionate attack on human rights,” according to the order seen by AFP.

“It is very likely that the other files will follow the same path,” Châlons-en-Champagne bar chief Francois Procuret said at a press briefing after the decision.

The stop on the ground took place after an “anonymous report” according to which the plane was “carrying Indian passengers (…) who were probably victims of human trafficking,” the Paris prosecutor’s office told AFP.

Among the passengers are 11 unaccompanied minors, according to the prosecutor’s office, from “a baby to a 17-year-old teenager.”

Six of them have expressed their desire to apply for asylum in France, lawyer Aurore Opirchal, authorized by the Chalons-en-Champagne bar association to represent some of them, told AFP.

According to a source close to the file cited by AFP, these Indians – probably workers from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) – may have planned to travel to Central America to then try to enter the United States or Canada illegally.

Two passengers were detained

The investigation, which is being carried out by the National Jurisdiction for the Fight against Organized Crime (Junalco), aims to “verify whether any element will confirm” the suspicions of human trafficking, according to the prosecutor’s office.

The two people have been in custody since Friday and their detention was extended on Saturday night for “a maximum of 48 hours” to check “whether their role” may have been different from others.

According to a source close to the case, ten asylum applications had been submitted by late Saturday.

Marne Prefecture says it has installed separate beds, toilets and showers, as well as a “family” area to ensure privacy for parents and children.

Legend Airlines previously operated flights for the same customer.

On Saturday, the 30 crew members targeted on the Bubai-Vatri or Vatri-Managua service were questioned and then “allowed to go free,” said Liliana Bakayoko, a lawyer for Romania’s Legend Airlines, according to News .ro.

She announced that Legend Airlines did not sell airline tickets directly to passengers, but to a non-European customer.

For one customer, the company made “several flights” – also between Nicaragua and the UAE.

The company intends to “become a civil litigant in the event of prosecution by a government department or filing of a complaint,” otherwise.

According to the specialized site Flightradar, Legend Airlines is a small company with a fleet of four aircraft, two of which are Airbus A340-313s.