Majority of deportees on €337,800 flight remain in Ireland, says Shatter

THE Minister for Justice has confirmed that 12 Congolese and eight Nigerians on board a deportation flight costing €337,800 last July remain in Ireland.

According to Alan Shatter, the flight bound for Nigeria and the Congo was forced to return to Ireland last July after Algerian aviation authorities withdrew permission to enter their airspace mid-flight.

The flight was organised through the Frontex network involving the immigration authorities of Finland, Germany, Norway, Sweden and France as well as from this state, which was due to land in Lagos, Nigeria and Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo.