Ottawa, RCMP investigating alleged ‘threats’ against Air India: officials
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Transport Minister Pablo Rodriguez says in a social media post that the government takes any threat to aviation ``extremely seriously.''
Canada’s Transport Minister Pablo Rodriguez and the RCMP say an investigation is underway into what they call “threats” against Air India, after an online video warned people not to fly on the airline on Nov. 19.
Rodriguez says in a social media post that the government takes any threat to aviation “extremely seriously.”
He says Canada and its security partners are investigating the “recent threats circulating online,” and his press secretary confirms Rodriguez was referring to comments about Air India.
RCMP spokeswoman Kristine Kelly says police are collaborating with domestic and international partners and “industry stakeholders” in an investigation into the threat against Air India flights.
The original remarks about Air India were made by Gurpatwant Singh Pannun, a U.S.-based organizer of unofficial referendums on Sikh independence, including recent votes in Surrey, B.C.
Pannun says in a video, delivered in a mix of Punjabi and English, that he’s asking Sikhs to “not fly Air India” on Nov. 19, and there will be a “global blockade” against the airline that day.
However, Pannun says in a statement that he’s calling for a boycott of Air India and other businesses that support the Indian government.
“There is no threat,” Pannun says in his statement. “RCMP has every right to investigate a terror threat. And if they consider that calling for boycott of Air India as a civil disobedience ? is a terror, then so be it, let them investigate.”
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