A British man travelling back to England from France on Eurostar on Thursday was surrounded by armed French police and left stranded in Lille after being reported by the service’s manager for wearing the “wrong type of mask”. MailOnline has the story.
Eurostar requires all passengers to wear a mask onboard but a spokesman today said that there were no rules specifying what kind of masks must be worn.
Other passengers on the service said that the female manager of the train took a dislike to the man after an exchange of words, and ordered the service to stop so he could be arrested.
“I’ve done nothing wrong and respect all Coronavirus rules – this is absolutely outrageous,” he said, as he was led away in front of other stunned passengers on Thursday afternoon. …
Other passengers then complained about the unscheduled, unannounced stop in Lille that caused a 15 minutes delay.
“Why is Eurostar stopping its trains, and delaying hundreds of passengers, because of a petty dispute over one man’s mask?” said one.
The female Eurostar manager, who remained on the train after the man was taken into custody, confirmed she had reported him for wearing the “wrong type of mask” for preventing the spread of Coronavirus. …
Within minutes of departure [from Paris] the Eurostar manager was involved in a heated argument with the man.
She accused him of not complying with health and safety regulations, and said the black mask he was wearing was not appropriate.
All Eurostar passengers are expected to wear masks at all times, except for when they are eating or drinking.
There was a buffet on the train, and many of the passengers in Coach 13 – where the man was sitting alone by a window in a two-seat row – had removed their masks completely as they had sandwiches and drinks with them.
Despite this, the manager berated the man, and then used a radio to summon another member of staff. …
The businessman… replaced his black mask with a standard blue one provided by another passenger. He apologised, and appeared to have escaped any further action.
But when the train got to Lille it made an unscheduled stop, and three armed officers boarded, while the others waiting on the platform. …
[Another passenger said:] “The Eurostar woman was telling the police what to do, and insisting that the poor guy should be removed, like he was some kind of criminal.
“He was actually being very reasonable, and not swearing or acting in any kind of disruptive way at all – everybody else was on his side, but he was marched off and we didn’t see him again.”
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This is what happens when you give someone a bit of power over their fellow human beings – they take more.
Hopefully this woman will be sacked for causing so much disruption and apparently being so unreasonable.
People, bookmark and arm yourself with this: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/47-studies-confirm-inefectiveness-of-masks-for-covid-and-32-more-confirm-their-negative-health-effects/ *masks* *do* *not* *work*.
What the bloody hell is “a standard blue one” FFS?
Any piece of filthy old rag seems to pass for a muzzle here in the UK.
That Eurostar manager woman needs attention from someone armed, she really does!
This is, to coin a phrase, unbelievable…
Soon be on east coast mainline
All police in France are armed so, although I disagree with the over the top reaction, the headline is misleading. Would mean more if it was in this country (UK).
Nothing shows concern over an airborne respiratory disease like an open buffet for your passengers.
Everything makes sense in Clown World.
I think the important question here is can we catch Coronavirus with a mouthful of cheese and pickle .Obviously its not practical to eat any sort of food with a mask on it just gets messy.The highly qualified (no doubt) Eurostar manager was right to abuse her miniscule authority and challeng this man .Despite sceptics its a scietific fact that both paper and cloth masks can stop an invisible airborne microbe .Well done Eurostar and well done British government for turning once sensible people into gibbering morons
I have never seen an unarmed French policeman. Why does that form part of the narrative?
At least it seems that almost everyone on the train was “on his side.” This said, it would have been nice if fellow passengers had created more of a scene and more forcefully come to his defense.
This also makes me think of a disturbing video I saw last fall. A mother had attended her son’s junior high football game (held outside of course). She was sitting with other family members away from everyone else (there wasn’t a great crowd at a junior high football game). Anyway, someone snitched on her for not wearing a mask.
First an assitant principal and then two police officers came, got into an argument with her and ultimately arrested her, hauling her away from her son’s game (with her small son crying beside her). To make the story even more surreal, two of the cops who arrested her weren’t wearing a mask either.
But what got me is that nobody in the bleachers stood up for her.
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From the sounds of it the train manager simply had a bug up her bum and this poor guy got the brunt of it. In a sane world she would be fired and the man would be compensated (along with the other passengers who were delayed by this absurdity). But sanity left the building months ago.
and what is the wrong type of mask anyways? Especially when people are eating and drinking and don’t need to wear a mask at all while doing so?
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This is what happens when tyrants empower their useful idiots.
Says it all really.
Can’t think of anything worse, than getting on a plane these days!
This is an obvious example of a hypothetical prison where one example is made to make a whole population comply. They did it with the ladies meeting on the bench. Social media and 24 hour rolling news make this possible for tyrants everywhere. Delete and do not repeat as soon as you see any of this shit.
Tinpot dictators backed by armed paramilitaries.
It could happen here too.
Why didn’t the other passengers object? Forcibly.
“I’ve done nothing wrong and respect all Coronavirus rules “
This is a win win, surely?
A gullible conformist idiot gets picked on by a nasty conformist little Hitlerette, exploiting the stupid rules the said gullible idiot clearly loves, and all concerned are made to look ridiculous.
What’s not to like?
There’s a strange divergence here in the UK from the terrible extremes that appear to be happening in other Western countries, I’m not sure whether to be counting my blessings, counting my chickens, or just counting down the days… what should I be counting?
Sheep? There are enough around to do away with insomnia completely…
Oddly as an opera critic I was in the process of trying to arrange a Eurostar trip to Lille. I cannot wear anything other than a visor, so I won’t be bothering. If airlines and the likes of Eurostar continue to alienate their potential customers with their ridiculous mask policies they will continue to find themselves short of passengers
First, don’t believe everything (or anything) you read in the #ScumMedia.
However, this wouldn’t surprise me at all. This has been a Godsend (or rather, a Satansend) for Little Hitlers everywhere. Vichy France was rife with informants, and squabbling bands of various flavours of communists stabbing and selling each other out.
However, we’re not much better ourselves. When the next lockdown happens, and our social credit score apps are rolled out, you can bet this, and worse, will happen here.
Hull Police had a ‘portal’ for people to snitch on their neighbours. Remember that?
“The police 101 reporting line is being swamped by members of the public informing on neighbours and those they perceive to be breaking the coronavirus “rule of six”, The Times understands.
Senior officers said that some forces were having to put extra staff on shifts to man the phone lines because the volume of calls had rapidly increased.”
BTW, German rail does officially require passengers to wear the FFP2 mask type (blue surgical won’t do, officially). Most people of course ignore this harebrained regulation. (It was introduced because King of Bavaria’s wife has a company selling those FFP2 masks.)
FFP2 (and FFP3 / N95) valved respirators may actually do something to protect the wearer, but cannot even pretend to protect others.
Even that vile little creature Fauci pointed this out: that’s were his “common sense” edict to wear a cloth muzzle over an N95 respirator came from.
Planned, along with the eco-actors on Old Street roundabout in London today. How do they get funded and paid? Through Patreon is it…?
Anhyhow, it succeeds in shifting the news cycle away from the lack of energy, fuel and rising inflation and electricity costs.
The wrong type of mask? Was the train manager wearing special sunglasses and saw the mask did not have the subliminal word ‘OBEY’ on it?
It’s obvious, you can’t wear a black mask when everyone else is wearing a blue mask.
If only he’d worn leopard print. That works extremely well.
I’m not sure how reliable this source is, but The Expose website is carrying a story which reports that the French government wants to make covid-19 vaccines mandatory for all adults from next year. If this is the direction in which France is headed, we should all be very worried 🙁
That will trigger a civil war.
Nah, just widespread corruption and cheating.
I agree, the camp which rejects the vaccine consider it lethal, so they will never, ever submit to what they would interpret as forced euthanasia. Civil unrest would be the outcome (and I believe this is the aim).
It will not. The number of people who will actually use lethal force to defend themselves is vanishingly small.
Not in France, I’d wager.
Well it hasn’t yet. And I’m not sure I’d like to go up against one of The Vaccinated because they have been injected with nanobots and have special powers.
Latest (translated from French): The proposal of some senators to establish a vaccination obligation for all people has just been rejected by the Senate Social Affairs Committee. This obligation was wanted from January 1 by lobbyists.
https://rumble.com/vnbv86-winning-the-war-against-therapeutic-nihilism-and-trusted-treatments-vs-unte.html
Everyone concerned by what lies ahead for us needs to look at this courageous talk by Peter McCullough, who confronts with truth, the lies and deceptions used against the population by their governments.
McCullough is great. Do you listen to his podcast? A rock star of the sceptical universe!
A very brave man and one who has stepped up to the challenge facing us all.
Incredibly so. And too prominent and influential to destroy the credibility of.
Maskers fighting amongst themselves now
He clearly didn’t believe hard enough.
And the insanity of mask-wearing is underscored when the report mentions the removal of said masks in order to eat or drink! The virus is very considerate in leaving people alone during such times, isn’t it?!
It’s been so on airplanes since the very first day. This, along with the observation that anyone can wear their mask “the wrong way” (and most people do), let me realize very quickly that all the mask mandates are just political, bureaucratic bs.
So why would you describe the individual as “unruly” (as you did in a post above) and defend his removal from a train?
When you are stood side-on to the sun, do people stood on the other side of you ever squint as the sun coming from you ear hits them in the eyes?
Aeroplanes.
Only the desperate and/or the feeble minded would travel anywhere under these conditions. Eurostar and any airlines enforcing similar stupidity should be boycotted and allowed to go broke.
I’d written off international travel by summer last year. No desire to jump through tyrannical hoops, fill in ‘locator forms’ or unnecessarily add my name to any sinister databases. I’m sure we’ll travel again in our lifetimes, but not until this regime has collapsed.
Funnily enough, by making that choice you are helping reduce the spread more than any vaccinated individual who still does travel. OTOH, reducing the spread by travel is now completely pointless because the virus is already everywhere, and the only way to get over it is to get everyone infected, vaccinated or not.
Gold star for me!
re: Most people have already been infected.
This also applies to athletes who are being bullied into getting a vaccine. I somehow missed this report that gave the percentage of college athletes in one sports league who had ALREADY “tested positive” by last December. The figure was 30. 4 percent.
And that was just through or until December. By this June that figure was no doubt over 50 percent.
So more than half of the athletes who have been forced to get vaccinated already have natural immunity.
The study looked at ALL athletes in the Big 10 who had tested positive between March 2020 and December 2020.
https://www.si.com/college/2021/05/27/big-ten-covid-19-myocarditis-study
Your paid troll workmates voting you up again.
International travel for the masses is a thing of the past and ‘this regime’ is not going to collapse because meaningful general elections are also a thing of the past.
The ‘wrong type of mask’. What next, arrested for walking on the cracks in the pavement? For being in possession of an offensive-looking wife?
Wrong brand of “vaccine”?
There is no right one.
We all know the only true brand is Pfizer, all the other ones were just introduced as decoy.
I’m pretty sure the underlying technology is Moderna’s
That would certainly explain why Moderna’s srock value has grown by multiples, whereas Pfizer’s is has gone up much less.
It’s Moderna’s game but they’ve probably had to enlist Pfizer as a partner in crime to be able to roll out at the required scale and speed. Moderna is a very new company with no track record and little infrastructure. The Tesla of the pharma industry.
Mode RNA.
Or ugly kids.