After protests, airline suspends service

Demonstrators say problems had been ignored PARIS - Protesters linked arms across an entrance at Paris’ main airport yesterday to keep passengers off a Yemeni flight to Comoros on a route that saw a deadly crash this week after years of complaints about dangerous conditions en route to the Indian Ocean island nation. The airline that operated the crashed jet, Yemenia, suspended its service to Comoros in response to the Paris protest and other demonstrations this week, accusing the protesters of “inadmissible violence.’’ Many in the Comoran community in France are angry that it took Tuesday’s accident, which killed 152 people on Yemenia airlines’ Paris-Moroni flight, to focus attention on the problems. They say that since 2004 they... [read full story]                    

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