Passenger escorted onto plane by armed officers

But there will be loads of criminals on planes. Remember years ago my police officer husband seeing someone he knew had a warrant out and ringing it in.

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But thinking rationally - if this guy was dangerous or a risk to the public he would not have been allowed to fly alone.

I'm no longer up to date on this and not sure how much is supposed to be in the public domain but I think it's OK to say that's a very valid assumption.

No but they are limited to 90 days and will be removed if officials notice - usually going from one Shengen to another.

It's usual when you have violated your visa conditions, to be escorted to the border or onto the plane to ensure you leave the country. That's all. Lots of people violate visa conditions and Germany just get rid of them, same as we do.

There’s always feelings of uneasiness seeing armed officers. But thinking rationally - if this guy was dangerous or a risk to the public he would not have been allowed to fly alone. He would have needed to be cuffed to an officer at all times on the flight.

He was obviously escorted onto the plane by officers as they would have needed to ensure he got on the flight, for whatever reason.

I saw similar, but a woman extradited from the UK. She sat at the back of the plane (across from me and my small child, glaring at us). At the destination she was met by airport police and was taken off the place first. I assumed it was deportation.

No but we will be turned away if we don’t have enough time left on our passports!

I had to have armed guards escort me on to a flight from NY to London once, as I was the last to board (I was in the toilets at the boarding gate, and didn’t hear they had started to board 😬). They were about to unload my luggage.

I apologise to everyone one that flight that day. Lesson learned.

Erm, okay?

Maybe but what was described doesn't seem like the most subtle way of doing it.

Most times the general public are utterly unaware.

I'd put money on the fact a lot of the regular travellers here (especially those who fly Long Haul a lot) will have been on board with deportees or those turned as being inadmissibles and never realised.

Maybe he's spent more than 90 days out of 180 (or whatever it is) in the EU and the Germans were complying with the post-Brexit rules.

Clearly he was being deported or recalled back to the UK for a crime committed there. But if no cops met him at the other end it was probably deportation as the armed guards only needed to make sure he was off German soil then it's the UK's problem.

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Where in the world are you thinking of?

In any event not everyone who is deported or deemed inadmissible is assessed as needing a guard, armed or not.

I saw the crew side of this a few times and was briefed by officials on occasion...certainly every offender I was involved in carrying were quietly resigned to their fate and good as gold onboard

Do Brits need visa to enter Germany?

All police is armed in Germany routinely 🙄. Probably more so in Airports.

I believe we have sky marshals so there may have been one sitting at the back.

He’s most likely being deported for some reason. And police in most airports are heavily armed.

Been involved in a few of these.

The individual was probably deemed Inadmissible by German authorities and so was being deported.

There are various tiers of handling, without going into details what you saw looks like fairly standard handling for many cases and I wouldn't expect announcements to be made

Most police (including airport police) most countries are armed by default so you'd expect to see sidearms.

Well yes, this isn’t America.

Killing someone for fighting you is ridiculous and frankly a nightmare for the entire airport and all passengers for god knows how many days.

massive escalation.

My great aunt had this treatment once before when her employers (the military!) had messed up her Visa. A few decades ago now. She wasn't military herself, contracted by them, so was returning home on her own. She was effectively deported from the stop over airport by armed police. Handcuffed and marched on to the plane that she wanted to get on anyway! Once on the cuffs were removed. She said she stood at the front of the plane and told all the passengers what was going on because it was so humiliating.

Edited to say she was working in Germany a lot so could have been there.

most likely he was refused entry to Germany for some reason, it could be he was a British national who had been imprisoned in Germany, had served his sentence and was being deported or he was wanted by U.K. police and had been caught in Germany though i would expect an escort in that situation

Sounds like he was being extradited. My husband was also extradited (calm down, everyone, it’s not as dramatic as it sounds) and he was taken onto the plane before anyone else and the process was similar.

Yes

if he’s not done anything wrong as such …

Most likely He has probably been refused entry on arrival could be that he’s on a tourist visa and they have evidence that he is going to work , may have overstayed previously

So he gets deported back to the uk / wherever

the police follow on to the plane and give the captain his passport and to ensure he’s not going to do a runner

when he gets of the plane he is given his passport back no is bothered at the uk end. As he is back where he belongs where he has citizenship

don’t ask me how I know 😂😂