Indian woman asked to strip at Frankfurt airport |
An Indian-origin woman travelling from Bengaluru to Iceland has alleged racial profiling after she was asked to strip by security officials at Germany`s Frankfurt airport recently. Shruthi Basappa, who lives in Reykjavik, Iceland and is married to an Icelandic citizen, detailed her ordeal in a series of posts on Facebook. She said she was travelling to Iceland from India, via Frankfurt with our 4 year old daughter when she was asked to move aside for this `random check`, no explanations offered. She was taken into a room, and was asked to lift her dress/ take it off so that she could be checked to make sure she wasn`t `carrying anything under her clothes`. This whole ordeal happened in front of my 4 year old, Basappa wrote. She claimed that she was asked to lift up or remove her clothing even after clearing a full body scans. Her request to be patted down gently, owing to a recent abdominal surgery, was also ignored by the security personnel, who shouted at her for voicing her reservations.
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