Overview

• The Perpignan prosecutor said the 52-year-old manager refused entry to a pre-booked group of Israeli minors, citing “personal convictions” to interlocutors.
• The judge placed him under investigation for discrimination based on origin, ethnicity or nationality, an offense carrying up to five years in prison and a €75,000 fine.
• Specialist anti-hate investigators from the OCLCH are assisting the Prades gendarmerie under a flagrante delicto procedure.
• The manager denies any ideological motive, pointing to storm-related safety checks announced on Facebook and past safety issues he claims involved another Israeli group.
• The children, aged 8 to 16 and visiting from Spain, were escorted by gendarmes to an alternative site without incident as political and communal leaders publicly condemned the refusal.