• Touriste bloquée dans la zone de transit de l’aéroport de Francfort par ce qu’elle n’a pas de visa (sa destination : USA) :

    I have a flight from TUN to US thru Frankfurt and right when I make it to my layover in Frankfurt, @United
    texts me that the flight is canceled and that I’m rebooked for FRIDAY. There are no flights flying out of Frankfurt in the next days bc of a strike.

    All the white passengers get to leave the airport while PoC people with no German visas stay behind. All Lufthansa passengers get hotel vouchers. I get left behind. I am alone in a shut off terminal. All restaurants closed bc there are no flights operating.

    The only 2 security people working took my last bottle of water even tho I begged them to keep it bc everything is shut. Water vending machines are shut off.

    I go to the office of the federal police and request an emergency exit permit as it’s humanly impossible for me to spend Tues-Fri stuck at an international gate in a non operational airport with no aircrafts landing or taking off or no personnel or passengers around me. The police denies my permit and says they’ll grant it in case something (aka medical emergency) happens to me now if something was to happen, there isn’t anyone around me to alert them. I have no idea how I’ll spend tonight curled up on an airport bench with no fresh clothes, food, or water- or how I’ll continue to do this for the coming nights. All I’m here to say is borders are gross and passport discrimination is gross and this airport’s police is absolutely inhumane to non-visa carriers and the airlines are holding us hostage until further notice while every European/ USian walked out the door and got themselves a bed to sleep on and food to eat for the next few days.

    Finally, I am not surprised to say @United are absolutely useless.

    https://twitter.com/AnaneBelkis/status/1552154927044214785

    #aéroport #visa #horreur #non-assistance #zone_de_transit #limbe #immobilité

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    ajouté à la métaliste sur des cas de personnes bloquées dans les aéroports (en général, des exilé·es/demandeurs d’asile) :
    https://seenthis.net/messages/720652