TheRyanair passengerwho was caught on video berating an elderly woman and calling her an “ugly black bastard’ while boarding a flight from Barcelona to London has apologized and denied he is racist.
When a Ryanairflight attendantapproached and asked Gayle if she wanted to sit elsewhere, Mesher screamed, “Put her to another seat!” before turning to Gayle and adding, “I tell you this. If you don’t go to another seat, I’ll put you to another seat!”
Gayle’s response is inaudible in the video, but Mesher clearly responds with, “Don’t talk to me in a f—ing foreign language, you stupid ugly cow!”
“I apologize for all the distress you’ve had there and since,” Mesher added.
However, Gayle and her daughter, Carol Gayle, who was also on board the flight and attempted to confront Mesher at the time, have said they cannot yet accept his apology.
“You must forget and forgive but it’s going to take a long time for me to get over what he has done to me,” Delsie said.
“He says he wasn’t racist,” Carol added. “He wouldn’t be saying words like that if he wasn’t racist.”
Immediately following the incident, there was backlash against Ryanair for their handling of the situation with many wondering why the flight crew didn’t immediately remove Mesher from the flight for his behavior. Labor Party MP David Lammy spoke out about the incident on Twitter.
Ryanair issued a statement on Friday in which it maintains that the crew was unaware of the nature of the incident and were only made aware of the video evidence and the “racist abuse” that had taken place during a “verbal argument between two passengers seated adjacent to each other” after the flight landed.
The release states that upon seeing the video, they immediately reported it to Essex Police in Stansted Airport at 9 a.m. on Sunday Oct. 21.
“These prompt actions disprove the false claims that Ryanair did not respond ‘quickly’ or ‘appropriately’ to this video,” a spokesperson for the airline said.
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“We also invited the passenger to contact the airline if they wished to discuss the matter further,” the spokesperson said. “The claim made in the media in recent days, that Ryanair did not contact or apologise to the female passenger, is untrue.”
He continued, “We trust that this statement will address the inaccurate media coverage of this incident over recent days, and that the legal rights of both passengers will be respected, while the Police services in Essex and Barcelona conduct their investigation of this matter, with Ryanair’s full cooperation and assistance.”
source: people.com
