Europe's move: What response after Belarus diverts Ryanair flight?

It is enough to hijack the agenda of an #EU summit. A supposed bomb threat was the pretext for forcing a Ryanair flight to land in #Belarus, where authorities could then pluck an independent #journalist from the plane. What kind of a precedent is set by the scrambling of military jets to force a commercial carrier to land? What is Europe going to do about it?

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[abdukadirahmed]

Great Shame of the EU. Belarus hijacks Ryanair Flight OMG😱😱😱

[Alex-vg]

Where is your discuss from Julian Assange dragged out of embassy

[ratnamani]

EU reminds me of League of Nations. 🤦‍♀️

Keep accommodating and appeasing
the Dictators just like you did to
Germany before the War. 🤷‍♀️

[x.y.z]

Congratulations France 24 English, again!! Really appreciate your extraordinary effort in such a short time to ensure (by far) the most comprehensive and respectable coverage of this important European news development.

[darrellOOO]

Where was the EU and the World in 2016, when Ukraine forced a Belarusian civilian airliner carrying 136 people to land in Kiev and arrested one of the passengers, the Armenian journalist Armen Martirosyan. Yet nothing but silence from the EU and the World. Why?

[gurusukumaran]

You do the same thing deny permission to the flight of Evo morales in 2013 the same thing in mid air and forcefully landed in Austria you forgot that

[BK-ufqr]

Dominik is right. Call it what it is. Nice to see a European with some balls. Russia and Belarus take advantage of weakness, as democracies often have. Get your act together and stand up.