PARIS (Reuters) -Swedish activist Greta Thunberg said on Tuesday she was kidnapped in international waters by Israeli forces as she arrived in Paris Charles de Gaulle airport after being deported from Israel. “We were kidnapped in international waters,” she told reporters at her arrival in Paris. Thunberg, 22, arrived in Paris a day after the […]
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Sweden’s Greta Thunberg said she was kidnapped in international waters
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PARIS (Reuters) -Swedish activist Greta Thunberg said on Tuesday she was kidnapped in international waters by Israeli forces as she arrived in Paris Charles de Gaulle airport after being deported from Israel.
“We were kidnapped in international waters,” she told reporters at her arrival in Paris.
Thunberg, 22, arrived in Paris a day after the Israeli navy prevented her and a group of fellow pro-Palestinian activists from sailing to Gaza.
Israeli forces boarded the charity vessel as it neared Gaza early on Monday, trying to break through a years-old naval blockade of the coastal enclave, and seized the 12-strong crew, including Thunberg.
(Reporting by Dominique Vidalon; Editing by GV De Clercq)