Kuwait embassy in London clarified that the person arrested on suspicion of being a security threat was not a Kuwaiti national as published by media there but an illegal resident.
On learning about the detention of two passengers on Sunday, one of them supposedly Kuwaiti, after landing a plane at Stansted Airport in London, UK, the Kuwaiti embassy in London said that it took the initiative to communicate with the relevant British authorities as soon as it became aware of what was circulated in some media and social media. The embassy announced in a press statement today, Monday, that the suspect was not a Kuwaiti, but of an undetermined nationality
Two men aboard an incoming Ryanair flight from Vienna had been arrested after an alleged “security threat”, one of whom was reported as being a Kuwaiti national. Since then, British counterterrorism police released the two men without charge
Earlier, the men from Italy were detained at the London airport, Essex Police confirmed. Ryanair, which owns the Lauda jet, said its crew were alerted to a ‘potential security threat’ while on board.
Two RAF Typhoon fighter jets were scrambled to escort a passenger jet at London Stansted Airport on Sunday evening. Armed police surrounded the Lauda aircraft, which is a subsidiary of RyanAir after it landed on the tarmac at Stansted on Sunday
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