France: Muslim airport workers targeted in terror crackdown

Authorities at Paris’ largest airport have stripped several dozen employees - almost all Muslims – of their security badges in a crackdown against terrorism.

France: Muslim airport workers targeted in terror crackdown

Authorities at Paris’ largest airport have stripped several dozen employees - almost all Muslims – of their security badges in a crackdown against terrorism.

Now four baggage handlers who lost their clearance have filed a joint discrimination complaint this week, saying they had been unfairly associated with terrorism because they were Muslims, their lawyers said. Some had been in their jobs for up to five years.

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