Agence France Presse via NewsEdge Corporation : FRANKFURT,
Germany, July 29 (AFP) - Up to 400 people demonstrated peacefully at
Frankfurt international airport on Sunday against the forceful deportation
of asylum-seekers.
Access to terminals was denied to people without tickets over fears
the protest would get out of hand and disrupt airport operations, officials
said.
The demonstration organisers said some 30 to 40 people are deported
every day from Frankfurt airport, sometimes with the use of force to
restrain anyone attempting to resist.
Some 600 had demonstrated in Frankfurt on Saturday with banners
reading: "Nobody is illegal."
In May, demonstrators unveiled a plaque at the airport to the memory
of three people who were accidentally killed as they struggled to resist
deportation.
According to Monday"s edition of the German news magazine Der Spiegel,
a Sudanese called Aamir Ageb died aboard a Lufthansa plane in 1999 after
German police used violence against him as he was being put aboard the
flight.
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