Human trafficking suspected: Flight with 300 Indians grounded in France

Paris, 22/12: France has grounded a charter flight headed to Nicaragua carrying 303 Indian passengers, and a judicial investigation into the conditions and purposes of the trip has been launched, local officials in the eastern Marne region said on Friday.

French media including BFM TV and France 3 reported that authorities were probing suspicions of human trafficking. The flight, carried out by a Romanian charter company, had departed from Dubai on Thursday and landed at the small Vatry airport